0 past simple and past participle of replace
1 to take the place of something, or to put something or someone in the place of something or someone else:
2 to put something back where it was before:
Do a global search for 'organise' and replace it with 'organize'.
The Council plans to knock the library down and replace it with a hotel complex.
Imperial units have in many cases been replaced by metric ones in Britain.
Doctors have replaced the top of his hip bone with a metal sphere.
We replaced one of the scheduled formal discussions with two parallel informal discussions in the day room to explore the impact of context.
The model should be replaced only if an alternative model is proposed which provides a better summary of the 81 tasks.
We take this as support for our claim that the traditional responseto-stimulus-mapping view should be replaced by an eventrepresentation view.
