replaced
- 1Simple past and past participle of replace.
The committee replaced the outdated rules with clearer guidelines.
Several workers were replaced by machines during the factory's modernization.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the simple past (she replaced the battery) and the participle after have or in the passive (it has been replaced; workers were replaced by machines). The verb also keeps its older meaning of putting something back where it was. A replaced book may therefore be a new copy or the same one returned to its shelf. Context, or a with-phrase naming the substitute, settles which.
replaced is a form of replace
replace, verb: To put something new or equivalent in the place of something that is gone, worn out, or unwanted. Full entry
- Spelling
- replace → replaced: add -d
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /t/.
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