1put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items
- the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt
- substitute regular milk with fat-free milk
- synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning
Synonymssubstitute, replace, interchange, exchange,
Hyponymsreduce, retool, shift, subrogate, truncate,
Hypernymschange,
Type ofchanged, exchanged, interchanged,
Typesreduced, retooled, shifted, subrogated, truncated,
See alsosubstitution,