Related / Similar Words:
put back, substitute, supplant, supersede, supervene upon Definition: 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 th;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 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";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"; Hyponyms: change, exchange, commute, convert, novate, hang up, shift, reduce, truncate, retool, subrogate, substitute, deputize, deputise, step in, usurp, oust Grouped Verbs: supplant, supersede, supervene upon, put back Derivational Morphology:
surrogate, alternate, replacement, substitution, permutation, transposition, switch, substitute, replacing, exchange, commutation, supersedure, supersession, usurper, supplanter, supplanting, displacement Anagrams:
clapper, percale
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