0 past simple and past participle of substitute
1 to use something or someone instead of another thing or person:
I use that recipe but substitute wheat-free flour for regular flour.
I took out the words 'he' and 'his' and substituted them with 'they' and 'their'.
Computers can't substitute for human interaction.
Of course, no book or course of study can substitute for experience.
Note that the above rule may be applied provided the scope of substituted names is localised to the term to be reduced.
The new type of tenancy removed rent control and substituted market rents with very little security of tenure.
Other reports made similar assertions, but substituted snakes, 'seven to eight feet in length', for the beetles.