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EXCHANGED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Changed for (replaced by) something different
Classified under:
Similar:
changed (made or become different in nature or form)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb exchange
Context examples:
And while he exchanged the stupidities of stupid minds with them, before his inner sight towered the book-shelves of the library, filled with the wisdom of the ages.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For the possession of a flesh-and- blood god, he exchanged his own liberty.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the Frozen Ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
I would not now have exchanged Lowood with all its privations for Gateshead and its daily luxuries.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They exchanged guns, and Trelawney, silent and cool as he had been since the beginning of the bustle, hung a moment on his heel to see that all was fit for service.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Mr. Utterson and the inspector exchanged glances.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Sheridan and Francis exchanged glances behind the Prince’s back.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And Meg laughed also at the queer look which the sisters exchanged as she thus described her supposed lover.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Wnt activation also changes Pitx2 from a repressor to an activator by causing transcriptional corepressors like histone deacetylase 1 (HDAC1) bound to Pitx2 to be exchanged for coactivators.
(Pitx2 Transcription Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
No wonder that we looked gloomily at each other that night, and sought our blankets with hardly a word exchanged.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
