Replace vs. Remove — What's the Difference?

Take the place of

Take (something) away or off from the position occupied

Put (something) back in a previous place or position

Abolish or get rid of

To put back into a former position or place

Be distant from

To restore or return

Separated by a particular number of steps of descent

To take the place of

A degree of remoteness or separation

To fill the place of; provide a substitute for

A form or division in some British schools

(transitive) To restore to a former place, position, condition, etc.; to put back

To move from a place or position occupied

(transitive) To refund; to repay; to pay back

To transfer or convey from one place to another

(transitive) To supply or substitute an equivalent for

To take off

(transitive) To take over the position or role from.

To take away; withdraw

(transitive) To take the place of; to be used instead of

To do away with; eliminate

(transitive) To demolish (a building) and build an updated form of that building in its place.

To dismiss from an office or position.

To place again.

To change one's place of residence or business; move

To put in a new or different place.

To go away; depart.

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

To be removable

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

The act of removing; removal.

To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.

Distance or degree of separation or remoteness

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

(transitive) To delete.

To put in a new or different place.

(transitive) To move something from one place to another, especially to take away.

Substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected);

To replace a dish within a course.

Take the place or move into the position of;

(transitive) To murder.

Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items;

To dismiss a batsman.

Put something back where it belongs;

(transitive) To discard, set aside, especially something abstract (a thought, feeling, etc.).

To depart, leave.

(intransitive) To change one's residence; to move.

To dismiss or discharge from office.

The act of removing something.

A dish served to replace an earlier one during a meal; a part of a new course.

(British) at some public schools A division of the school, especially the form prior to last

A step or gradation (as in the phrase "at one remove")

Distance in time or space; interval.

Emotional distance or indifference.

(dated) The transfer of one's home or business to another place; a move.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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.

To dismiss or discharge from office; as, the President removed many postmasters.

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.

The act of removing; a removal.

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.

The state of being removed.

That which is removed, as a dish removed from table to make room for something else.

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.

The act of resetting a horse's shoe.

Degree of figurative distance or separation;

Remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, taking off, etc. or remove something abstract;

Remove from a position or an office

Dispose of;

Cause to leave;

Shift the position or location of, as for business, legal, educational, or military purposes;

Go away or leave;

Kill intentionally and with premeditation;

Get rid of something abstract;