replace
/ɹɪˈpleɪs/ verb A2- To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back. · When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.
- To refund; to repay; to pay back. · You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.
- To supply or substitute an equivalent with. · I replaced my car with a newer model.· The batteries were dead so I replaced them.
- To take over the position or role from.
- To take the place of; to be used instead of. · This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.
- To demolish (a building) and build an updated form of that building in its place.
Plural replace · He/she/it replaces · Past replaced · Past participle replaced · -ing form replacing
Verb forms
- Base form
- replace
- He/she/it
- replaces
- Past
- replaced
- Past participle
- replaced
- -ing form
- replacing
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The sudden extinction of the moccoletti, the darkness which had replaced the light, and the silence which had succeeded the turmoil, had left in Franz’s mind a certain depression which was not free from uneasiness.
Descending into the grotto, he lifted the stone, filled his pockets with gems, put the box together as well and securely as he could, sprinkled fresh sand over the spot from which it had been taken, and then carefully trod down the earth to give it everywhere a uniform appearance; then, quitting the grotto, he replaced the stone, heaping on it broken masses of rocks and rough fragments of crumbling granite, filling the interstices with earth, into which he deftly inserted rapidly growing plants, such as the wild myrtle and flowering thorn, then carefully watering these new plantations, he scrupulously effaced every trace of footsteps, leaving the approach to the cavern as savage-looking and untrodden as he had found it.
Much of the snap had gone out of the old lady’s eyes by this time and was replaced by a twinkle of amused interest.
They turned the bowsprit towards Sardinia, where they intended to take in a cargo, which was to replace what had been discharged.
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