Misplaced vs Replaced - What's the difference?
misplaced | replaced |
(misplace)
Uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.
Lost; disoriented.
(replace)
To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.
To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
To supply or substitute an equivalent for.
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To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.
(rare) To place again.
(rare) To put in a new or different place.
As verbs the difference between misplaced and replaced
is that misplaced is (misplace) while replaced is (replace).As an adjective misplaced
is uncomfortable, especially due to one's surroundings.misplaced
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(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- I felt so misplaced at that party last night.
- I was looking for the supermarket but then I got misplaced .
replaced
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*replace
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(replac)- When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.
- The earl...was replaced in his government. — .
- You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.
- I replaced my car with a newer model.
- The batteries were dead so I replaced them
- Next Wednesday, four women and 15 men on the Crown Nominations Commission will gather for two days of prayer and horsetrading to replace Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury.
- This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.
- This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. — .