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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
- transitive verb. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
- transitive verb. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
- transitive verb. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
- transitive verb. To put in a new or different place.
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
- verb. 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"
- verb. take the place or move into the position of
"Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"
"the computer has supplanted the slide rule"
Synonyms
exchange, interchange, substitute, supercede, supersede, supplant
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in replace:
Common word forms
replaced, replacer, replaces, replacing, replaceable, replacement
Words from these letters
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