0 present 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Imperial units have in many cases been replaced by metric ones in Britain.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.
Science advances by replacing old theories with new ones that make better predictions.
Having only one parent might have meant a household necessity of replacing the loss/absence of one parent.
Clearly, the public health official is not replacing the physician; rather, ethicists now realize a need to be in dialogue with both.
