# Replace: verb

### Dictionary

> *"to assume the former role, position, or function of; substitute for (a person or thing)"*
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> *"to provide a substitute or equivalent in the* [*place*](https://www.dictionary.com/browse/place) *of"*

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### Cambridge Words

> *"to take the* [*place*](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/place) *of something, or to put something or someone in the* [*place*](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/place) *of something or someone* [*else*](https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/else)*"*

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### Merriam-Webster

> *"to put something new in the place of"*
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> *"to take the place of especially as a substitute or successor"*

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