What is the meaning of exchanged?

verb

  • Give to, and receive from, one another.
    • usage: "Would you change places with me"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
  • Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.
    • usage: "Could you convert my dollars into pounds"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
  • Change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence.
  • Hand over one and receive another, approximately equivalent.
    • usage: "exchange prisoners"; "exchange employees between branches of the company"
  • Put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items.
    • usage: "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"
  • Exchange a penalty for a less severe one.

adjective

  • Changed for (replaced by) something different. .
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APAWordNet. (2010). exchanged. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/exchanged/definitions/1173640
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