to replace · to supersede · to supplant · (chemistry) substitution

Compact discs have entirely taken the place of phonograph records.

I can't take the place of her as an English teacher.

Because of the problem of air pollution, the bicycle may some day replace the automobile.

History develops through the replacement of the old by the new.

There is a widespread opinion that all study of the mode of oratory is unmanly, and leads to the substitution of artifice and adornment for simplicity and power.