replace

Verbs

  • (v) 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
  • (v) 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
    supercede, supersede, supervene upon, supplant,
  • (v) 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
    put back,
  • (v) 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
    interchange, substitute, exchange,

Synonyms

supercede supersede supervene upon supplant put back interchange substitute exchange

Words of close approximity

replay
replant
replaceability replaceable replacement replacement cost