reemplazar

/reemplaˈθaɾ/ · B1 · verb

to replace

🔄 re + em + plaza = put back into the place: what you do when you replace

Built from re- (again) + emplazar (to place, to put in position), from plaza, meaning place or square. Reemplazar is putting something new into the place of the old one, just as English re-place does.

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