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Replacing

noun

1.

The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another. Synonym: replacement.

Replace

verb

1.

Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected). "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago" , "The insurance will replace the lost income" , "This antique vase can never be replaced"

2.

Take the place or move into the position of. Synonyms: supercede, supersede, supervene upon, supplant. "The computer has supplanted the slide rule" , "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"

3.

Put something back where it belongs. Synonym: put back. "Please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"

4.

Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items. Synonyms: exchange, interchange, substitute. "Substitute regular milk with fat-free milk" , "Synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"

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"Replacing" Quotes from Famous Books

... He (Man) is only the offspring of the planet by virtue of his material body being a part of the substance of the Earth. This life is a stage, only, of his material journey; and, just as Man's body is continually throwing off useless dead matter and replacing the same with new life, so, too, the countless organic forms of Earth are hourly returning to the ground from which they sprang, and new forms, rising from the same dust, are taking ...

— The Light of Egypt, Volume II • Henry O. Wagner/Belle M. Wagner/Thomas H. Burgoyne

... went on with his examination. Finally, replacing the last article in the trunk, he closed the lid with a hopeless air, and turned toward ...

— Donald and Dorothy • Mary Mapes Dodge

... far distant; it was past four o'clock. I had passed the night in replacing wet cloths upon her head and moistening her lips, as she lay apparently lifeless on her litter. I could do nothing more; in solitude and abject misery in that dark hour, in a country of savage heathens, thousand of miles away from ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

... over to the fire, replacing a brand that had fallen down; came back to her cushion and sat there a minute ...

— The Gold of Chickaree • Susan Warner

... member of which was above four feet high and the smallest among them scarcely two feet and six inches. His father's dogs, such as setters, mastiffs, greyhounds, and a pack of beagles, he sold or gave away as too large and too boisterous for his house, replacing them by pugs and King Charles spaniels and whatever other breeds of dog were the smallest. His father's stable was also sold. For his own use, whether riding or driving, he had six black Shetland ponies, with four very choice piebald animals ...

— Crome Yellow • Aldous Huxley

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