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replace

re.place \ri-'pla-s\ \-'pla--s*-b*l\ vt 1: to restore to a former place or 
   position  2: to take the place of : SUPPLANT  3: to fill the place of es a 
   filling of a place once occupied by something lost, destroyed, or no longer 
   usable or adequate; DISPLACE implies an ousting or dislodging preceding a 
   replacing; SUPPLANT applies to taking the place of one forced out by craft 
   or fraud; applied to things it implies the new and usu. more efficient 
   displacing the old; SUPERSEDE implies replacing a person or thing that has 
   become superannuated, obsolete, or otherwise inferior - re.place.able aj 
   SYN syn DISPLACE, SUPPLANT, SUPERSEDE: REPLACE impli