• v.
    ⦿take the place or move into the position of
    lexical concept
  • Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school
  • Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left
  • the computer has supplanted the slide rule

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:replace
  2. enl:supersede
  3. enl:supervene upon
  4. enl:supplant
wn:interlingual indexili:i33773

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • replacesupersedesupervene uponsupplant
  • supersedesupervene uponsupplant