Origin: Latin prefix super-
Supersede has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
An updated newsgroup post that supersedes an earlier version.
take the place or move into the position of
"Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"
"the computer has supplanted the slide rule"
"Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
To take the place of.
The word supersede comes from the Latin supersedēre, meaning "to postpone," which combines the words for "over" and "to sit." Its modern sense of "to replace" emerged in 1642 through an association with the unrelated word precede.