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Meaning of replace

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  replace
      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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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