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say it: ree-PLAYS
replace is a verb meaning "substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)". It carries 4 recorded senses.
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”
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”
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
“the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt”
“substitute regular milk for fat-free milk”
“synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for replace come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.