Dictionary Entry
replace
replace is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 14 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
- 2transitive verb
To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
- 3transitive verb
To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
- 4transitive verb
To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
- 5transitive verb
To put in a new or different place.
- 6verb
substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)
"He replaced the old razor blade"
"We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"
- 7verb
put something back where it belongs
"replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"
"please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
- 8verb
put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
"the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"
"substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"
Synonyms
- 9verb
take the place or move into the position of
"Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"
"the computer has supplanted the slide rule"
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