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REPLACE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)

Example:

This antique vase can never be replaced

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "replace" is one way to...):

regenerate; renew (reestablish on a new, usually improved, basis or make new or like new)

Verb group:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant (take the place or move into the position of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "replace"):

change; commute; convert; exchange (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category)

change (remove or replace the coverings of)

novate (replace with something new, especially an old obligation by a new one)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

replacement (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)

replacement (a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another)

replacement (an event in which one thing is substituted for another)

replacement (someone who takes the place of another person)

replacing (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Put something back where it belongs

Example:

please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them

Synonyms:

put back; replace

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "replace" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Verb group:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant (take the place or move into the position of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "replace"):

hang up (put a telephone receiver back in its cradle)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

Example:

synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning

Synonyms:

exchange; interchange; replace; substitute

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "replace" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "replace"):

shift (move and exchange for another)

reduce (simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another)

truncate (replace a corner by a plane)

retool (provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools)

subrogate (substitute one creditor for another, as in the case where an insurance company sues the person who caused an accident for the insured)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

replacement (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Take the place or move into the position of

Example:

Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school

Synonyms:

replace; supersede; supervene upon; supplant

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "replace" is one way to...):

come after; follow; succeed (be the successor (of))

Verb group:

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

put back; replace (put something back where it belongs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "replace"):

deputise; deputize; step in; substitute (act as a substitute)

displace; preempt (take the place of or have precedence over)

usurp (take the place of)

oust (remove and replace)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

replacement (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)

replacement (a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another)

replacement (someone who takes the place of another person)

replacing (the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Part of the process by which the body grows and replaces cells.

(Nuclear Division, NCI Thesaurus)

In higher vertebrates it is replaced by the vertebral column.

(Notochord, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Treatments include exercise, medications to control pain, and surgery to reposition or resurface the joint or to replace it with an artificial one.

(Stem cells grown on scaffold mimic hip joint cartilage, NIH)

In contrast, replacing carbohydrates with plant-based foods was linked to a lower risk of mortality.

(Moderate Carbohydrate Intake May be Best for Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

While such a strategy would likely not replace life-saving, emergency epinephrine when anaphylaxis occurs, therapies targeting Tfh13 cells might prevent the onset of anaphylaxis when an allergic person is exposed to an allergen.

(Scientists discover immune cell subtype in mice that drives allergic reactions, National Institutes of Health)

A condition in which the cells lining the lower part of the esophagus have changed or been replaced with abnormal cells that could lead to cancer of the esophagus.

(Barrett esophagus, NCI Dictionary)

An antineoplastic agent with a structural similarity to a natural substance that can replace that substance in a normal biochemical pathway and interfere with the normal metabolic processes of cells.

(Antimetabolite, NCI Thesaurus)

The heart tissue is replaced by fibrous and adipose tissues.

(Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia, NCI Thesaurus)

A procedure to replace diseased or pathologic bone marrow with transplanted healthy bone marrow stem cells.

(Bone Marrow Stem Cell Transplantation, NCI Thesaurus)

One strategy to treat diabetes is to replace destroyed beta cells.

(Developing Insulin-Producing Cells to Treat Diabetes, NIH)