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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

... carried it down to her parlor and placed it on the center table beside that of her son's, wreathing and clustering them round with deep-red, velvety roses from the garden, and each day until they came gathered fresh ones, replacing those that withered. She telegraphed her blessing and love to them both and wrote Mary a long letter, telling her how happy she should be to welcome her home as John's ...

— Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight • Mathew Joseph Holt

... rescue the Irish colony of Dalriada from a great danger, and render them an important service by establishing peaceable relations between them and their greatly more numerous and powerful neighbours, and replacing them in the more secure possession of the western districts they had colonised."[190] It was in 563, and at the age of forty-two, that he settled at Iona and commenced his mission-work by founding his monastery[191] there. He met there "two ...

— Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys • Dugald Butler and Herbert Story

... better from day to day. He had been quiet and manageable from the first in his new nurse's hands; now he began to take pleasure in his society, holding long talks with him on all possible subjects. Appetite mended also, and strength was gradually replacing weakness, which had been very great. Anxiety on the one score of her father's recovery ...

— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner

... four days before were blind and bare of feathers? They could not have flown; they must have been hurried out of the nest as soon as they could stand. Could it be because I knew their secret? I felt myself a monster, and I tried to make amends by hunting them up and replacing them. But the canny parents, as usual, outwitted me. Not only had they removed their infants, but they had hidden them so securely that I could not find them, and I was sure, from their movements, that they were ...

— Upon The Tree-Tops • Olive Thorne Miller

... before his death Thackeray told me that he had then succeeded in replacing the fortune which he had lost as a young man. Ho had, in fact, done better, for he left an income of seven hundred and fifty pounds ...

— Thackeray • Anthony Trollope

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