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US
/ˌɹiˈpɫeɪs, ɝˈpɫeɪs/
]
[ UK /ɹɪplˈeɪs/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪplˈeɪs/ ]
VERB
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take the place or move into the position of
Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school
the computer has supplanted the slide rule
Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left -
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 -
substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
the insurance will replace the lost income
He replaced the old razor blade
This antique vase can never be replaced
We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago -
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
substitute regular milk for fat-free milk
the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt
synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning
How To Use replace In A Sentence
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- Back in the mid-1980s, for example, knee replacement surgery was considered a success if the patient wound up with 90 degrees of flexion, which is "nothing near normal," he says. Latest News
- When they replaced the ten-minute peak-hour ferry services with 20-minute sailings, in 1975, it was chaos.
- The new sled is meant to replace the one he had in Colorado, back with his family. Eric’s Top 10 Defining Christmas Moments » Scene-Stealers
- The threatened uniform typically consists of a khaki military tunic with trousers, though in Scottish regiments the trousers are usually tartan or replaced by a kilt.
- The cats were then taken out of the room for 15 minutes, and the four bowls were replaced with identical empty ones. Times, Sunday Times
- So many useful shops disappear, to be replaced by a retail outlet that is not welcomed by many of us.
- By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
- This gorgeous, homemade tiki fireplace complete with smoking nostrils is lavishly documented in this build log. Boing Boing: February 12, 2006 - February 18, 2006 Archives
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