This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

v. To put back into a former position or place.

v. To take or fill the place of.

v. To be or provide a substitute for.

v. To pay back or return; refund.

v. To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

v. To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

v. To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

v. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfil the end or office of.

v. To demolish a building and build a updated form of that building in its place.

v. To place again.

v. To put in a new or different place.

v. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

v. To refund; to repay; to restore.

v. To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

v. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.

v. To put in a new or different place.

To put again in the former or the proper place.

To restore (what has been taken away or borrowed); return; make good: as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

To substitute something competent in the place of, as of something which has heen displaced or lost or destroyed.

To fill or take the place of; supersede; be a substitute for; fulfil the end or office of.

Synonyms To reinstate, reëstablish, restore.

v. put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items

v. put something back where it belongs

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

v. take the place or move into the position of

"If I include the curly brackets where I instinctively think they should go as shown below it does not replace the $search values with the $replace values."

replaced    replaces    replacing   

replaced crystal   

eliminate   

replacement    replaceable   

refund    repay    restore   

Ace    Chase    Grace    Mace    Race    ace    apace    base    bass    brace   

gradus    deploy    truth-seeking    striatal    710-2    ____________________________________________________________    news-breaking    25-30    theother    reductio