Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected)

Usage examples of replacing.

To his personal satisfaction, mounting the newest issue of pods there meant replacing half the starboard pods to match them .

Their cowls kept falling from their faces and they kept replacing them as if a bare face were indecent.

At the same time she flushed the loading bay with the ventilation system on high power, replacing as much sleepgas as she could with clean air.

Nancia knew exactly when that happened, because by then she had thought to send Sev Bryley to Summerlands with a contact button discreetly replacing the top stud in his dress tunic and a second contact button to dip onto Caleb's hospital gown.

Nancia could almost see him pushing the pain he felt deep inside, replacing his diplomat's mask.

She bent over briefly, fiddled with the prosthesis replacing her left leg, and straightened with two lengths of shining, thread-fine wire.

It was easy to erase conscious knowledge of her Talent, replacing it with a feeling of accomplishment and well-being: the post-hypnotic command to respond to Dorotea's telepathic demands and channel them firmly into speech centers.

A permanent Mars colony replacing the present temporary exploration habitat would prove that humanity could adapt to an alien ecology.

Clarissia was replacing Stierlman who had not achieved the necessary rapport with Laria.

The mentor drew back in astonishment, expressions of incredulity, dismay, and indignation replacing his customary diffidence.

There were tables and stools, and brick hearths replacing circles of stones, and ovens ranged on one wall.

For a couple of days she was sure it was caused by the ripe soft fruits that flourished in the almost tropical weather this far south, and she ignored the minor discomfort until one morning when Joe was replacing the splints and bandages on her arm.

There were enough to agree with her, but it made for an interesting argument in the evenings and had those with wooden floors in their huts replacing them with thick slate or flagstones.

He had no left hand, a hook attachment replacing it, but a flitter was easily driven with only one.

Two days after getting his belt, Sean began to see proper new pots replacing discarded tins over the campfire, and his mother and three sisters were wearing new shirts and shoes.