Replace - Definition

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, replace, supersede, supervene upon,
supercede]
3: 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]
4: 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]