Replace: Definition and part of speech

Replace

  1. v. t. To put in a new or different place.
  2. v. t. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
  3. v. t. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
  4. v. t. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
  5. v. t. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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