mindmap root((替代)) replace implies a filling of a place once occupied by something lost, destroyed, or no longer usable or adequate: the broken window will have to be ~d. displace implies an ousting or dislodging or crowding out, often preceding a replacement: thousands had been ~d by the floods. supplant implies either a dispossessing or usurping of another's place, possessions, or privileges or an uprooting of something and its replacement with something else: discovered that he had been ~ed in her affections by another. supersede implies the replacing of a person or thing that has become superannuated, obsolete, or otherwise inferior: the new edition ~s all previous ones.