'Replace' definitions:
Definition of 'replace'
From: WordNet
verb
Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
verb
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" [syn: supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon, supercede]
verb
Put something back where it belongs; "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them" [syn: replace, put back]
verb
Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning" [syn: substitute, replace, interchange, exchange]
Definition of 'Replace'
From: GCIDE
- Replace \Re*place"\ (r?-pl?s"), v. t. [Pref. re- + place: cf. F. replacer.]
- 1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. [1913 Webster]
- The earl . . . was replaced in his government. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document. [1913 Webster]
- With Israel, religion replaced morality. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of. [1913 Webster]
- This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. --Whewell. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To put in a new or different place. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers. [1913 Webster]
- Replaced crystal (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'replace'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- act for,
- alter,
- attend,
- boot,
- bounce,
- break,
- bump,
- bust,
- can,
- cashier,
- change,
- change places with,
- come after,
- crowd out,
- cut out,
- defrock,
- degrade,
- demote,
- deplume,
- depose,
- deprive,
- disbar,
- discharge,
- disemploy,
- dismiss,
- displace,
- displume,
- double for,
- drum out,
- emanate,
- ensue,
- expel,
- fill in for,
- fire,
- follow after,
- follow up,
- furlough,
- ghost,
- ghostwrite,
- give back,
- give the ax,
- give the gate,
- go after,
- issue,
- kick,
- kick upstairs,
- lay off,
- let go,
- let out,
- make redundant,
- overtake,
- pension off,
- pinch-hit,
- place in,
- put back,
- reactivate,
- read out of,
- reconstitute,
- reconvert,
- recoup,
- recover,
- recruit,
- reenact,
- reestablish,
- refill,
- reform,
- refund,
- regain,
- rehabilitate,
- reinstall,
- reinstate,
- reinstitute,
- reintegrate,
- reinvest,
- release,
- relieve,
- remove,
- renew,
- repay,
- replenish,
- represent,
- restitute,
- restore,
- result,
- retire,
- retrieve,
- return,
- revest,
- sack,
- separate forcibly,
- shift,
- spell,
- spell off,
- stand in for,
- strip,
- subrogate,
- substitute,
- substitute for,
- succeed,
- superannuate,
- supersede,
- supervene,
- supplant,
- surplus,
- suspend,
- swap places with,
- take back,
- track,
- trail,
- turn off,
- turn out,
- understudy for,
- unfrock