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代替 — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • displace verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
  • spell noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
  • substitute verb To use one thing or person in place of another.
  • supersede verb To take the place of something older or less effective, so that the earlier version is no longer used or valid.
  • understudy noun A performer who learns a role well enough to step in if the usual actor cannot perform.

Senses

代替 is used for these senses in English:

  • displace To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
  • in lieu instead; in place
  • in place of instead of
  • instead of In lieu of; in place of; rather than.
  • spell (transitive) To work in place of (someone).
  • stand in for (idiomatic, transitive) To replace; to act as a double or substitute for.
  • substitute (transitive) To use in place of something else, with the same function.
  • supersede (transitive) To take the place of.

displace — full definition

  1. verb To force people to leave their home or homeland.
  2. verb To take the place of something or someone, often by being better suited.
  3. verb To move something out of its normal or original position.

spell — full definition

  1. noun Words believed to have magical power, or the magical effect they produce.
  2. verb To write or say the letters that make up a word, in the correct order.
  3. verb To indicate or signal that something is likely to happen.
  4. noun A short period of time doing a particular activity, or a stretch of a certain kind of weather.

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