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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

... sixth centuries after Christ, the era in which we are still living was being prepared in Europe. It was gradually to replace the fourth, or Greco-Roman civilization. It is the fifth post-Atlantean period. The races which, after many wanderings and varied fortunes, became the vehicles of this new civilization were descendants of those Atlanteans who had remained less affected than others ...

— An Outline of Occult Science • Rudolf Steiner

... replace poor Charlie Stansmore, since there were no men willing to come whom I should have cared to take. I cannot say enough in gratitude for the hospitality that we met with at Hall's Creek, from the Warden, whose guests we were the ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... that with which thou hast no concern. Put up thy blade, I say, and go about thy business, ere I teach thee a trick or two which will let more ardor out of thy body than a three days' diet of beef can replace." ...

— The Fifth of November - A Romance of the Stuarts • Charles S. Bentley

... the crest of each advancing wave, and sometimes there is a second crest on the shoulders of the first, as if there were more than could be contained in a single curve. Greens and purples are called forth to replace the prevailing blue. Far out at sea, great separate mounds of water rear themselves, as if to overlook the tossing plain. Sometimes these move onward and subside with their green hue still unbroken, and ...

— Oldport Days • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

... battle had gone down in the storm, and, like the Knight of Arthur, I looked around me, with vacant and inquiring eyes, asking whither I was now to direct my steps, and what work I should work in the coming years. Jackson! Stuart!—who could replace them? They had loved and trusted me—their head-quarters had been my home. Now, when they disappeared, I had no friends, no home; and an inexpressible sense of loss descended upon me, as a dark cloud descends and obscures a landscape, smiling and ...

— Mohun, or, The Last Days of Lee • John Esten Cooke

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