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replaceverb to take the place ofthe old street lights were replaced by more energy-efficient models cut out, displace, displant, relieve, substitute, supersede, supplant preempt, usurp to bring, send, or put back to a former or proper placetook the fragile vase down to look at it and then gently replaced it on the shelf replace, displace, supplant, supersede mean to put out of a usual or proper place or into the place of another.replace implies a filling of a place once occupied by something lost, destroyed, or no longer usable or adequate.replaced the broken window displace implies an ousting or dislodging.war had displaced thousands supplant implies either a dispossessing or usurping of another's place, possessions, or privileges or an uprooting of something and its replacement with something else.was abruptly supplanted in her affections by another supersede implies replacing a person or thing that has become superannuated, obsolete, or otherwise inferior.the new edition supersedes all previous ones in 1587 |