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Replace   /rˌiplˈeɪs/  /ərplˈeɪs/   Listen
verb
Replace  v. t.  
1.
To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. "The earl... was replaced in his government."
2.
To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
3.
To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document. "With Israel, religion replaced morality."
4.
To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of. "This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration."
5.
To put in a new or different place. Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers.
Replaced crystal (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.





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