Replace and Remove

replace

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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

remove

Degree of figurative distance or separation.
- usage: "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy";

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract.
- usage: "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
- synonyms: take, take away, withdraw
Remove from a position or an office.
Dispose of.
- usage: "Get rid of these old shoes"; "The company got rid of all the dead wood"
- synonyms: get rid of
Cause to leave.
- usage: "The teacher took the children out of the classroom"
- synonyms: take out, move out
Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes.
- usage: "He removed his children to the countryside"; "Remove the troops to the forest surrounding the city"; "remove a case to another court"
- synonyms: transfer
Go away or leave.
- usage: "He absented himself"
- synonyms: absent
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.
- usage: "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered"
- synonyms: murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off
Get rid of something abstract.
- usage: "The death of her mother removed the last obstacle to their marriage"; "God takes away your sins"
- synonyms: take away

(n.) The transfer of one's business or of one's domestic belongings, from one location or dwelling house to another; -- in the United States usually called a move.
(n.) That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.
(v.t.) To cause to leave a person or thing; to cause to cease to be; to take away; hence, to banish; to destroy; to put an end to; to kill; as, to remove a disease.
(v.t.) To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
(n.) The act of resetting a horse's shoe.
(n.) The act of removing; a removal.
(v.t.) To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.
(n.) The distance or space through which anything is removed; interval; distance; stage; hence, a step or degree in any scale of gradation; specifically, a division in an English public school; as, the boy went up two removes last year.
(n.) The state of being removed.
(v.i.) To change place in any manner or to make a change in place; to move or go from one residence, position or place to another.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary