replace

  1. Verb.  (transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
  2. Verb.  (transitive) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
  3. Verb.  (transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
  4. Verb.  (transitive) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfil the end or office of.
  5. Verb.  (transitive) To demolish a building and build a updated form of that building in its place.
  6. Verb.  (transitive, rare) To place again.
  7. Verb.  (transitive, rare) To put in a new or different place.

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