Replace

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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              The earl . . . was replaced in his government.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of
        money borrowed.
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     3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace
        a lost document.
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              With Israel, religion replaced morality. --M.
                                                    Arnold.
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     4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull
        the end or office of.
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              This duty of right intention does not replace or
              supersede the duty of consideration.  --Whewell.
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     5. To put in a new or different place.
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     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.
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     {Replaced crystal} (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or
        more planes in the place of its edges or angles.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  replace
       v 1: 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"
       2: 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}, {supersede}, {supervene upon}]
       3: 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"
          [syn: {substitute}]
       4: 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: {put back}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "replace":
     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