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Replace

verb

Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected). "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"

Take the place or move into the position of. Synonyms: supercede, supersede, supervene upon, supplant. "The computer has supplanted the slide rule" , "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"

Put something back where it belongs. Synonym: put back. "Please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"

Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items. Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute. "Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk" , "Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"

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"Replace" Quotes from Famous Books

... Murden; "when you get back to Melbourne I'll see that you have a yoke of cattle to replace them." ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... engagement. The enemy had generally new arms which had run the blockade and were of uniform caliber. After the surrender I authorized all colonels whose regiments were armed with inferior muskets, to place them in the stack of captured arms and replace them with the latter. A large number of arms turned in to the Ordnance Department as captured, were thus arms that had really been used by the Union army in the capture ...

— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant

... to the inference that marriage with her had not benefited him. Matters might improve in the future; but to take upon herself the whole liability of Swithin's life, as she would do by depriving him of the help his uncle had offered, was a fearful responsibility. How could she, an unendowed woman, replace such assistance? His recent visit to Greenwich, which had momentarily revived that zest for his pursuit that was now less constant than heretofore, should by rights be supplemented by other such expeditions. ...

— Two on a Tower • Thomas Hardy

... sudden pleasure, and her glasses fell from her eyes. She did not replace them, but, clasping her hands ...

— The Bread-winners - A Social Study • John Hay

... Forest there are areas upon which the trees have been destroyed by fire. Many of these are so large or so remote from seed-bearing trees that natural reproduction will not suffice to replace the forest. In such localities planting is needed, and for that purpose the Forest Examiner must establish and conduct a forest nursery. The decision on the kind of trees to plant and on the methods of raising and planting them, the collection of the seed, the care ...

— The Training of a Forester • Gifford Pinchot

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