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SUBSTITUTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Working as a substitute for someone who is ill or on leave of absence
Synonyms:
subbing; substituting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("substituting" is a kind of...):
work (activity directed toward making or doing something)
Derivation:
substitute (be a substitute)
substitute (act as a substitute)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb substitute
Context examples:
My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was the same insularity of mind that made the ancient Jew thank God he was not born a woman, and sent the modern missionary god-substituting to the ends of the earth; and it made Ruth desire to shape this man from other crannies of life into the likeness of the men who lived in her particular cranny of life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
She could not help but measure the professors, neat, scholarly, in fitting clothes, speaking in well-modulated voices, breathing of culture and refinement, with this almost indescribable young fellow whom somehow she loved, whose clothes never would fit him, whose heavy muscles told of damning toil, who grew excited when he talked, substituting abuse for calm statement and passionate utterance for cool self-possession.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
