Replace and Reconstruct

verb

• Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected. )
  • usage: "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced"
• Take the place or move into the position of.
  • usage: "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school"
  • synonyms: supplant, supersede, supervene upon, supercede
• Put something back where it belongs.
  • usage: "replace the book on the shelf after you have finished reading it"; "please put the clean dishes back in the cabinet when you have washed them"
  • synonyms: put back
• Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: substitute, interchange, exchange

• (v.t.) To put in a new or different place.
• (v.t.) To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition or the like.
• (v.t.) To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of.
• (v.t.) To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
• (v.t.) To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

verb

• Reassemble mentally.
  • usage: "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago"
  • synonyms: construct, retrace
• Build again.
  • usage: "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb"
  • synonyms: rebuild
• Cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically.
• Return to its original or usable and functioning condition.
  • usage: "restore the forest to its original pristine condition"
  • synonyms: restore
• Do over, as of (part of) a house.
  • usage: "We are remodeling these rooms"
  • synonyms: remodel, redo

(v.t.) To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.