Replace
verbrɪ'pleɪs
Verb
take the place or move into the position of
“Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left”
“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”
Type of:ChangeAlterModifyput something back where it belongs
“replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it”
Type of:PosePutPositionsubstitute 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”
Type of:RegenerateRenew
Dictionary Validity
- Tournament Word List (TWL)
- Scrabble US
- Collins Scrabble Words (CSW21)
- Scrabble UK
- ENABLE Dictionary
- Words With Friends
- Combined US/UK Scrabble Dictionary
- SOWPODS
- North American Scrabble (NWL2020)
- NASPA