Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb exchange

6 senses of exchange

Sense 1
exchange, change, interchange -- (give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year")
       => transfer -- (cause to change ownership; "I transferred my stock holdings to my children")

Sense 2
change, exchange, commute, convert -- (exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares")
       => replace -- (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected); "He replaced the old razor blade"; "We need to replace the secretary that left a month ago"; "the insurance will replace the lost income"; "This antique vase can never be replaced")

Sense 3
switch over, switch, exchange -- (change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence)
       => change by reversal, turn, reverse -- (change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern")

Sense 4
exchange -- (hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent; "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company")
       => transfer, reassign -- (transfer somebody to a different position or location of work)

Sense 5
substitute, replace, interchange, exchange -- (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning")
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Sense 6
commute, convert, exchange -- (exchange a penalty for a less severe one)
       => change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")

Antonyms of adj exchanged

1 sense of exchanged

Sense 1
exchanged -- (changed for (replaced by) something different)

INDIRECT (VIA changed) -> unchanged -- (not made or become different; "the causes that produced them have remained unchanged")

Similarity of adj exchanged

1 sense of exchanged

Sense 1
exchanged -- (changed for (replaced by) something different)
       => changed (vs. unchanged) -- (made or become different in nature or form; "changed attitudes"; "changed styles of dress"; "a greatly changed country after the war")

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