| gear | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. cogwheel, gear, gear wheel, geared wheel | a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion. |
| ~ bevel gear, pinion and crown wheel, pinion and ring gear | gears that mesh at an angle. |
| ~ cog, sprocket | tooth on the rim of gear wheel. |
| ~ escape wheel | gear that engages a rocking lever. |
| ~ pinion | a gear with a small number of teeth designed to mesh with a larger wheel or rack. |
| ~ epicyclic gear, planet gear, planet wheel, planetary gear | an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train. |
| ~ rack and pinion | a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack; converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa). |
| ~ spur gear, spur wheel | gear wheels that mesh in the same plane. |
| ~ sun gear | the central gear in an epicyclic train. |
| ~ tooth | one of a number of uniform projections on a gear. |
| ~ wheel | a simple machine consisting of a circular frame with spokes (or a solid disc) that can rotate on a shaft or axle (as in vehicles or other machines). |
| ~ worm gear | gear consisting of a shaft with screw thread (the worm) that meshes with a toothed wheel (the worm wheel); changes the direction of the axis of rotary motion. |
| ~ worm wheel | gear with the thread of a worm. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. gear, gearing, geartrain, power train, train | wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed.; "the fool got his tie caught in the geartrain" |
| ~ engine | motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work. |
| ~ epicyclic gear train, epicyclic train | a system of epicyclic gears in which at least one wheel axis itself revolves about another fixed axis. |
| ~ reduction gear | gearing that reduces an input speed to a slower output speed. |
| ~ wheelwork | mechanical device including an arrangement of wheel in a machine (especially a train of gears). |
| n. (artifact) | 3. gear, gear mechanism | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle). |
| ~ first gear, low gear, low, first | the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving. |
| ~ gearset | a set of gears. |
| ~ high gear, high | a forward gear with a gear ratio that gives the greatest vehicle velocity for a given engine speed. |
| ~ mechanism | device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function. |
| ~ park | a gear position that acts as a parking brake.; "the put the car in park and got out" |
| ~ reverse gear, reverse | the gears by which the motion of a machine can be reversed. |
| ~ second gear, second | the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle.; "he had to shift down into second to make the hill" |
| ~ steering gear | a gear that couples the steering wheel to the steering linkage of a motor vehicle. |
| ~ third gear, third | the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle.; "you shouldn't try to start in third gear" |
| ~ transmission system, transmission | the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle. |
| n. (artifact) | 4. appurtenance, gear, paraphernalia | equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed for a particular operation or sport etc.. |
| ~ equipment | an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service. |
| ~ fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, tackle, rig | gear used in fishing. |
| ~ kit, outfit | gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose. |
| ~ regalia | paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office). |
| ~ rig | gear (including necessary machinery) for a particular enterprise. |
| ~ rigging, tackle | gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails. |
| ~ saddlery, stable gear, tack | gear for a horse. |
| v. (change) | 5. gear, pitch | set the level or character of.; "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience" |
| ~ adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| ~ popularise, popularize | make understandable to the general public.; "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books" |
| transmission | | |
| n. (act) | 1. transmission, transmittal, transmitting | the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted. |
| ~ sending | the act of causing something to go (especially messages). |
| ~ forwarding | the act of sending on to another destination.; "the forwarding of mail to a new address is done automatically"; "the forwarding of resumes to the personnel department" |
| ~ mailing, posting | the transmission of a letter.; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing" |
| ~ telephotography | transmission and reproduction of photographs and charts and pictures over a distance. |
| n. (communication) | 2. transmission | communication by means of transmitted signals. |
| ~ communicating, communication | the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information.; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" |
| ~ impartation, imparting, conveyance | the transmission of information. |
| ~ airing, dissemination, public exposure, spreading | the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate. |
| ~ channel, transmission channel | a path over which electrical signals can pass.; "a channel is typically what you rent from a telephone company" |
| ~ channels | official routes of communication.; "you have to go through channels" |
| ~ mass medium, medium | (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public. |
| ~ multimedia, multimedia system | transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.). |
| ~ electronic communication | communication by computer. |
| ~ fiber optics, fiberoptics, fibre optics, fibreoptics | the transmission of light signals via glass fibers. |
| ~ modulation | (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase. |
| ~ check character | a character that is added to the end of a block of transmitted data and used to check the accuracy of the transmission. |
| ~ uplink | a transmission from Earth to a spacecraft or the path of such a transmission. |
| ~ interrogation | a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder. |
| n. (quantity) | 3. transmission, transmittance | the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance. |
| ~ coefficient | a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic. |
| n. (event) | 4. contagion, infection, transmission | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted. |
| ~ incident | a single distinct event. |
| n. (artifact) | 5. transmission, transmission system | the gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle. |
| ~ automatic drive, automatic transmission | a transmission that automatically changes the gears according to the speed of the car. |
| ~ clutch | a coupling that connects or disconnects driving and driven parts of a driving mechanism.; "this year's model has an improved clutch" |
| ~ drive line, drive line system | mechanism that transmits power from the engine to the driving wheels of a motor vehicle. |
| ~ fluid drive | an automotive power coupling. |
| ~ 4wd, four-wheel drive | a transmission that provides power directly to all four wheels of a motor vehicle. |
| ~ gear mechanism, gear | a mechanism for transmitting motion for some specific purpose (as the steering gear of a vehicle). |
| ~ gear box, gear case, gearbox | the shell (metal casing) in which a train of gears is sealed. |
| ~ hydraulic transmission, hydraulic transmission system | a transmission that depends on a hydraulic system. |
| ~ standard transmission, stick shift | a transmission that is operated manually with a gear lever and a clutch pedal. |
| change | | |
| n. (event) | 1. alteration, change, modification | an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" |
| ~ acceleration | an increase in rate of change.; "modern science caused an acceleration of cultural change" |
| ~ deceleration, retardation, slowing | a decrease in rate of change.; "the deceleration of the arms race" |
| ~ happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent | an event that happens. |
| ~ avulsion | an abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another. |
| ~ break | an abrupt change in the tone or register of the voice (as at puberty or due to emotion).; "then there was a break in her voice" |
| ~ mutation | a change or alteration in form or qualities. |
| ~ sublimation | (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable. |
| ~ surprise | a sudden unexpected event. |
| ~ nascence, nascency, nativity, birth | the event of being born.; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" |
| ~ breakup, separation, detachment | coming apart. |
| ~ vagary | an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.).; "the vagaries of the weather"; "his wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market"; "he has dealt with human vagaries for many years" |
| ~ variation, fluctuation | an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change. |
| ~ conversion | a change of religion.; "his conversion to the Catholic faith" |
| ~ death, decease, expiry | the event of dying or departure from life.; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" |
| ~ decrease, lessening, drop-off | a change downward.; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales" |
| ~ destabilization | an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft). |
| ~ increase | a change resulting in an increase.; "the increase is scheduled for next month" |
| ~ easing, moderation, relief | a change for the better. |
| ~ deformation | alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it. |
| ~ transition | a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another. |
| ~ transformation, shift, transmutation | a qualitative change. |
| ~ sparkling, twinkle, scintillation | a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash. |
| ~ shimmer, play | a weak and tremulous light.; "the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers"; "the play of light on the water" |
| ~ transmutation | (physics) the change of one chemical element into another (as by nuclear decay or radioactive bombardment).; "the transmutation of base metals into gold proved to be impossible" |
| ~ damage, impairment, harm | the occurrence of a change for the worse. |
| ~ development | a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation.; "recent developments in Iraq"; "what a revolting development!" |
| ~ revolution | a drastic and far-reaching change in ways of thinking and behaving.; "the industrial revolution was also a cultural revolution" |
| ~ chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation | (genetics) any event that changes genetic structure; any alteration in the inherited nucleic acid sequence of the genotype of an organism. |
| ~ sex change | a change in a person's physical sexual characteristics (as by surgery and hormone treatments). |
| ~ loss of consciousness | the occurrence of a loss of the ability to perceive and respond. |
| n. (linkdef) | 2. change | a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event.; "he attributed the change to their marriage" |
| ~ relation | an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together. |
| ~ difference | a significant change.; "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference" |
| ~ gradient | a graded change in the magnitude of some physical quantity or dimension. |
| n. (act) | 3. change | the action of changing something.; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election" |
| ~ action | something done (usually as opposed to something said).; "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
| ~ entail | the act of entailing property; the creation of a fee tail from a fee simple. |
| ~ policy change, volte-face, about-face, reversal | a major change in attitude or principle or point of view.; "an about-face on foreign policy" |
| ~ adulteration | the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another). |
| ~ move, relocation | the act of changing your residence or place of business.; "they say that three moves equal one fire" |
| ~ downshift | a change to a lower gear in a car or bicycle. |
| ~ downshift | a change from a financially rewarding but stressful career to a less well paid but more fulfilling one. |
| ~ filtration | the act of changing a fluid by passing it through a filter. |
| ~ reduction, simplification | the act of reducing complexity. |
| ~ decimalisation, decimalization | the act of changing to a decimal system.; "the decimalization of British currency" |
| ~ metrication, metrification | the act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds. |
| ~ variation | the act of changing or altering something slightly but noticeably from the norm or standard.; "who is responsible for these variations in taxation?" |
| ~ turning | act of changing in practice or custom.; "the law took many turnings over the years" |
| ~ diversification, variegation | the act of introducing variety (especially in investments or in the variety of goods and services offered).; "my broker recommended a greater diversification of my investments"; "he limited his losses by diversification of his product line" |
| ~ flux | in constant change.; "his opinions are in flux"; "the newness and flux of the computer industry" |
| ~ switching, shift, switch | the act of changing one thing or position for another.; "his switch on abortion cost him the election" |
| ~ substitution, commutation, exchange | the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:.; "he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help" |
| ~ promotion | act of raising in rank or position. |
| ~ demotion | act of lowering in rank or position. |
| ~ change of state | the act of changing something into something different in essential characteristics. |
| ~ modification, adjustment, alteration | the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment). |
| ~ movement, move, motion | the act of changing location from one place to another.; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" |
| ~ movement | the act of changing the location of something.; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel" |
| ~ movement, motility, motion, move | a change of position that does not entail a change of location.; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" |
| ~ change of direction, reorientation | the act of changing the direction in which something is oriented. |
| ~ change of magnitude | the act of changing the amount or size of something. |
| ~ change of integrity | the act of changing the unity or wholeness of something. |
| ~ conversion | the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another. |
| ~ updating | the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something).; "criminal records need regular updating" |
| ~ change of shape | an action that changes the shape of something. |
| ~ satisfaction | act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite.; "the satisfaction of their demand for better services" |
| ~ nationalisation, nationalization | the action of rendering national in character. |
| ~ communisation, communization | a change from private property to public property owned by the community. |
| ~ secularisation, secularization | the activity of changing something (art or education or society or morality etc.) so it is no longer under the control or influence of religion. |
| ~ rollover | the act of changing the institution that invests your pension plan without incurring a tax penalty. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 4. change | the result of alteration or modification.; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains" |
| ~ consequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue | a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon.; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" |
| ~ depolarisation, depolarization | a loss of polarity or polarization. |
| n. (possession) | 5. change | the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due.; "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change" |
| ~ cash, hard cash, hard currency | money in the form of bills or coins.; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash" |
| n. (artifact) | 6. change | a thing that is different.; "he inspected several changes before selecting one" |
| ~ thing | an entity that is not named specifically.; "I couldn't tell what the thing was" |
| n. (artifact) | 7. change | a different or fresh set of clothes.; "she brought a change in her overnight bag" |
| ~ article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear | a covering designed to be worn on a person's body. |
| n. (possession) | 8. change | coins of small denomination regarded collectively.; "he had a pocketful of change" |
| ~ coin | a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money. |
| n. (possession) | 9. change | money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency.; "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver" |
| ~ cash, hard cash, hard currency | money in the form of bills or coins.; "there is a desperate shortage of hard cash" |
| n. (attribute) | 10. change, variety | a difference that is usually pleasant.; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic" |
| ~ difference | the quality of being unlike or dissimilar.; "there are many differences between jazz and rock" |
| v. (change) | 11. alter, change, 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" |
| ~ awaken, wake up, waken, rouse, arouse, wake | cause to become awake or conscious.; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." |
| ~ cause to sleep | make fall asleep.; "The soft music caused us to fall asleep" |
| ~ affect | act physically on; have an effect upon.; "the medicine affects my heart rate" |
| ~ refreshen, freshen, refresh | make fresh again. |
| ~ fecundate, inseminate, fertilise, fertilize | introduce semen into (a female). |
| ~ indispose | cause to feel unwell.; "She was indisposed" |
| ~ cry | bring into a particular state by crying.; "The little boy cried himself to sleep" |
| ~ etiolate | make pale or sickly.; "alcohol etiolates your skin" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ shade | vary slightly.; "shade the meaning" |
| ~ animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize | make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman.; "Life in the camps had brutalized him" |
| ~ convert | change the nature, purpose, or function of something.; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers" |
| ~ opalise, opalize | make opalescent. |
| ~ arterialise, arterialize | change venous blood into arterial blood. |
| ~ make, get | give certain properties to something.; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear" |
| ~ counterchange, interchange, transpose | cause to change places.; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size" |
| ~ vascularise, vascularize | make vascular.; "the yolk sac is gradually vascularized" |
| ~ decrepitate | to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops.; "decrepitate salts" |
| ~ suburbanise, suburbanize | make suburban in character.; "highly suburbanized cities" |
| ~ revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn | change radically.; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe" |
| ~ etiolate | bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight. |
| ~ barbarise, barbarize | make crude or savage in behavior or speech.; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man" |
| ~ alkalinise, alkalinize | make (a substance) alkaline.; "The oxide is alkalized" |
| ~ mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize | make into a myth.; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66" |
| ~ allegorise, allegorize | make into an allegory.; "The story was allegorized over time" |
| ~ demythologise, demythologize | remove the mythical element from (writings).; "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value" |
| ~ land, bring | bring into a different state.; "this may land you in jail" |
| ~ coarsen | make less subtle or refined.; "coarsen one's ideals" |
| ~ affect, bear upon, bear on, impact, touch on, touch | have an effect upon.; "Will the new rules affect me?" |
| ~ alchemise, alchemize | alter (elements) by alchemy. |
| ~ alcoholise, alcoholize | make alcoholic, as by fermenting.; "alcoholize prunes" |
| ~ shape, form | give shape or form to.; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character" |
| ~ round down, round off, round out, round | express as a round number.; "round off the amount" |
| ~ suspend | cause to be held in suspension in a fluid.; "suspend the particles" |
| ~ sober | cause to become sober.; "A sobering thought" |
| ~ reconstruct | cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically. |
| ~ increase | make bigger or more.; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" |
| ~ ease off, let up, ease up | reduce pressure or intensity.; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down" |
| ~ assimilate | make similar.; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly" |
| ~ dissimilate | make dissimilar; cause to become less similar. |
| ~ commute, exchange, convert | exchange a penalty for a less severe one. |
| ~ vitalise, vitalize | give life to.; "The eggs are vitalized" |
| ~ clear, unclutter | rid of obstructions.; "Clear your desk" |
| ~ activate | make active or more active.; "activate an old file" |
| ~ activate | make (substances) radioactive. |
| ~ aerate, activate | aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter. |
| ~ activate | make more adsorptive.; "activate a metal" |
| ~ deactivate, inactivate | make inactive.; "they deactivated the file" |
| ~ blunt, deaden | make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation.; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound" |
| ~ remodel, redo, reconstruct | do over, as of (part of) a house.; "We are remodeling these rooms" |
| ~ edit, redact | prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting.; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" |
| ~ edit out, edit, cut | cut and assemble the components of.; "edit film"; "cut recording tape" |
| ~ tame, chasten, subdue | correct by punishment or discipline. |
| ~ chasten, temper, moderate | restrain. |
| ~ ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better | to make better.; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes" |
| ~ aggravate, exacerbate, worsen, exasperate | make worse.; "This drug aggravates the pain" |
| ~ wet | cause to become wet.; "Wet your face" |
| ~ dry, dry out | remove the moisture from and make dry.; "dry clothes"; "dry hair" |
| ~ lubricate | make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant.; "lubricate the key" |
| ~ beef up, fortify, strengthen | make strong or stronger.; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries" |
| ~ fortify, lace, spike | add alcohol to (beverages).; "the punch is spiked!" |
| ~ weaken | lessen the strength of.; "The fever weakened his body" |
| ~ blunt | make less sharp.; "blunt the knives" |
| ~ oxidise, oxidate, oxidize | add oxygen to or combine with oxygen. |
| ~ merge, unify, unite | join or combine.; "We merged our resources" |
| ~ age | make older.; "The death of his child aged him tremendously" |
| ~ ripen, mature | cause to ripen or develop fully.; "The sun ripens the fruit"; "Age matures a good wine" |
| ~ antiquate, antique | give an antique appearance to.; "antique furniture" |
| ~ antiquate | make obsolete or old-fashioned. |
| ~ make grow, develop | cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development.; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple" |
| ~ soften | make soft or softer.; "This liquid will soften your laundry" |
| ~ damage | inflict damage upon.; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" |
| ~ ossify | cause to become hard and bony.; "The disease ossified the tissue" |
| ~ acerbate | make sour or bitter. |
| ~ stabilize, stabilise | make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium.; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices" |
| ~ destabilise, destabilize | make unstable.; "Terrorism destabilized the government" |
| ~ sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitize, sensitise | make sensitive or aware.; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" |
| ~ desensitise, desensitize | make insensitive.; "His military training desensitized him" |
| ~ accustom, habituate | make psychologically or physically used (to something).; "She became habituated to the background music" |
| ~ disarray, disorder | bring disorder to. |
| ~ discolor | cause to lose or change color.; "The detergent discolored my shirts" |
| ~ color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour | add color to.; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" |
| ~ stain | produce or leave stains.; "Red wine stains the table cloth" |
| ~ hue | take on color or become colored.; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey" |
| ~ uglify | make ugly. |
| ~ untune | cause to be out of tune.; "Don't untune that string!" |
| ~ adjust, correct, set | alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.; "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels" |
| ~ set | put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state.; "set the house afire" |
| ~ disqualify, unfit, indispose | make unfit or unsuitable.; "Your income disqualifies you" |
| ~ domesticise, domesticize, domesticate, tame, reclaim | overcome the wildness of; make docile and tractable.; "He tames lions for the circus"; "reclaim falcons" |
| ~ widen | make wider.; "widen the road" |
| ~ dehydrogenate | remove hydrogen from. |
| ~ hydrogenate | combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound). |
| ~ oxygenise, oxygenize | change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule). |
| ~ darken | make dark or darker.; "darken a room" |
| ~ brighten, lighten up, lighten | make lighter or brighter.; "The paint will brighten the room" |
| ~ blear, blur | make dim or indistinct.; "The fog blurs my vision" |
| ~ bedim, overcloud, obscure | make obscure or unclear.; "The distinction was obscured" |
| ~ blot out, obliterate, veil, hide, obscure | make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing.; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" |
| ~ cook | transform by heating.; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle" |
| ~ slenderise, slenderize | make slender or appear to be slender.; "slenderizing skirts" |
| ~ crack | cause to become cracked.; "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair" |
| ~ dismiss, dissolve | declare void.; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" |
| ~ terminate, end | bring to an end or halt.; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" |
| ~ defog, demist | free from mist.; "demist the car windows" |
| ~ concentrate, condense, contract | compress or concentrate.; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" |
| ~ cool, cool down, chill | make cool or cooler.; "Chill the food" |
| ~ heat, heat up | make hot or hotter.; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove" |
| ~ warm | make warm or warmer.; "The blanket will warm you" |
| ~ boil | bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point.; "boil this liquid until it evaporates" |
| ~ freeze | cause to freeze.; "Freeze the leftover food" |
| ~ blister | cause blisters to form on.; "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet" |
| ~ change over, shift, switch | make a shift in or exchange of.; "First Joe led; then we switched" |
| ~ transpose | change key.; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?" |
| ~ convert, change over | change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy.; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt" |
| ~ transform | increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage). |
| ~ transform | change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species. |
| ~ transform | convert (one form of energy) to another.; "transform energy to light" |
| ~ transmute | alter the nature of (elements). |
| ~ transform, transmute, transubstantiate | change or alter in form, appearance, or nature.; "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another" |
| ~ ash | convert into ashes. |
| ~ translate, transform | change from one form or medium into another.; "Braque translated collage into oil" |
| ~ reform, reclaim, rectify, regenerate | bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" |
| ~ convert | cause to adopt a new or different faith.; "The missionaries converted the Indian population" |
| ~ islamise, islamize | cause to conform to Islamic law.; "Islamize the dietary laws" |
| ~ reverse, invert, turn back | turn inside out or upside down. |
| ~ invert | make an inversion (in a musical composition).; "here the theme is inverted" |
| ~ customise, customize | make according to requirements.; "customize a car" |
| ~ personalise, personalize, individualise, individualize | make personal or more personal.; "personalized service" |
| ~ depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify | make impersonal or present as an object.; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women" |
| ~ sharpen | raise the pitch of (musical notes). |
| ~ flatten, drop | lower the pitch of (musical notes). |
| ~ disintegrate | cause to undergo fission or lose particles. |
| ~ magnetize, magnetise | make magnetic.; "The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings" |
| ~ degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize | make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of).; "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship" |
| ~ simplify | make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent.; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" |
| ~ rarify, complicate, refine, elaborate | make more complex, intricate, or richer.; "refine a design or pattern" |
| ~ refine | make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of.; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation" |
| ~ complicate, perplex | make more complicated.; "There was a new development that complicated the matter" |
| ~ pressurise, pressurize, supercharge | increase the pressure on a gas or liquid. |
| ~ centralise, centralize, concentrate | make central.; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" |
| ~ decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate | make less central.; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" |
| ~ socialise, socialize | make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies.; "Health care should be socialized!" |
| ~ gear up, prepare, ready, set, fix, set up | make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc.; "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill" |
| ~ internationalise, internationalize | make international in character.; "We internationalized the committee" |
| ~ bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize | make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles.; "communize the government" |
| ~ europeanize, europeanise | make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas. |
| ~ europeanise, europeanize | denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations. |
| ~ bestialise, bestialize | make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to. |
| ~ americanise, americanize | make American in character.; "The year in the US has completely Americanized him" |
| ~ frenchify | make French in appearance or character.; "let's Frenchify the restaurant and charge more money" |
| ~ civilise, civilize | raise from a barbaric to a civilized state.; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" |
| ~ nationalize, nationalise | put under state control or ownership.; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" |
| ~ denationalise, denationalize | put under private control or ownership.; "The steel industry was denationalized" |
| ~ naturalize, naturalise | make into a citizen.; "The French family was naturalized last year" |
| ~ denaturalise, denaturalize | strip of the rights and duties of citizenship.; "The former Nazi was denaturalized" |
| ~ naturalise, naturalize | make more natural or lifelike. |
| ~ denaturalise, denaturalize | make less natural or unnatural. |
| ~ even, even out | become even or more even.; "even out the surface" |
| ~ equalise, equalize, equal, equate, match | make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching.; "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors" |
| ~ stiffen | make stiff or stiffer.; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine" |
| ~ loosen, loose | make loose or looser.; "loosen the tension on a rope" |
| ~ tighten, fasten | make tight or tighter.; "Tighten the wire" |
| ~ transitivise, transitivize | make transitive.; "adding `out' to many verbs transitivizes them" |
| ~ detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize | intransitivize.; "removing the object will intransitivize the verbs" |
| ~ thicken, inspissate | make thick or thicker.; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" |
| ~ full | make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering. |
| ~ diversify | make (more) diverse.; "diversify a course of study" |
| ~ decelerate, slow down | reduce the speed of.; "He slowed down the car" |
| ~ deaden | make vapid or deprive of spirit.; "deadened wine" |
| ~ accelerate, speed up, speed | cause to move faster.; "He accelerated the car" |
| ~ retard, delay, check | slow the growth or development of.; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" |
| ~ minify, decrease, lessen | make smaller.; "He decreased his staff" |
| ~ liquidise, liquify, liquefy, liquidize | make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating.; "liquefy the silver" |
| ~ solvate | cause a solvation in (a substance). |
| ~ dissolve | cause to fade away.; "dissolve a shot or a picture" |
| ~ validate | make valid or confirm the validity of.; "validate a ticket" |
| ~ vitiate, void, invalidate | take away the legal force of or render ineffective.; "invalidate a contract" |
| ~ empty | make void or empty of contents.; "Empty the box"; "The alarm emptied the building" |
| ~ fill, fill up, make full | make full, also in a metaphorical sense.; "fill a container"; "fill the child with pride" |
| ~ saturate | cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance. |
| ~ clot, coagulate | cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state. |
| ~ louden | cause to become loud. |
| ~ renormalise, renormalize, normalise, normalize | make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard.; "normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling" |
| ~ morph | cause to change shape in a computer animation.; "The computer programmer morphed the image" |
| ~ neutralise, neutralize | make chemically neutral.; "She neutralized the solution" |
| ~ commercialise, commercialize, market | make commercial.; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" |
| ~ purify, sanctify, purge | make pure or free from sin or guilt.; "he left the monastery purified" |
| ~ mechanise, mechanize | make mechanical.; "mechanize the procedure" |
| ~ automate, automatise, automatize | make automatic or control or operate automatically.; "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot" |
| ~ automatise, automatize | turn into an automaton. |
| ~ mechanise, mechanize | make monotonous; make automatic or routine.; "If your work becomes too mechanized, change jobs!" |
| ~ chord, harmonise, harmonize | bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing. |
| ~ polarise, polarize | cause to vibrate in a definite pattern.; "polarize light waves" |
| ~ glorify | bestow glory upon.; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic" |
| ~ contaminate | make radioactive by adding radioactive material.; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" |
| ~ devalue | lower the value or quality of.; "The tear devalues the painting" |
| ~ insulate | protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material.; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came" |
| ~ calcify | convert into lime.; "the salts calcified the rock" |
| ~ urbanize, urbanise | make more industrial or city-like.; "The area was urbanized after many people moved in" |
| ~ urbanise, urbanize | impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon.; "Birds are being urbanized by people in outdoor cafes feeding them" |
| ~ emulsify | cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion. |
| ~ demulsify | cause to demulsify. |
| ~ decarboxylate | remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound). |
| ~ nazify | cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character.; "Hitler nazified Germany in the 1930's"; "The arts were nazified everywhere in Germany" |
| ~ fecundate, fertilise, fertilize | make fertile or productive.; "The course fertilized her imagination" |
| ~ clarify | make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating.; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer" |
| ~ embrittle | make brittle. |
| ~ mark | make or leave a mark on.; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" |
| ~ nick | divide or reset the tail muscles of.; "nick horses" |
| ~ disable, disenable, incapacitate | make unable to perform a certain action.; "disable this command on your computer" |
| ~ enable | render capable or able for some task.; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain" |
| ~ de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress | reduce the emphasis. |
| ~ tenderise, tenderize, tender | make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer.; "tenderize meat" |
| ~ charge | cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on.; "charge a conductor" |
| ~ bubble | cause to form bubbles.; "bubble gas through a liquid" |
| ~ sweeten | make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable.; "sweeten a deal" |
| ~ iodinate | cause to combine with iodine.; "iodinate thyroxine" |
| ~ ionate | add ions to. |
| ~ archaise, archaize | give an archaic appearance of character to.; "archaized craftwork" |
| ~ inform | give character or essence to.; "The principles that inform modern teaching" |
| ~ officialise, officialize | make official.; "We officialized our relationship" |
| ~ occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize | make western in character.; "The country was Westernized after it opened up" |
| ~ orientalise, orientalize | make oriental in character.; "orientalize your garden" |
| ~ acetylate, acetylise, acetylize | introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound). |
| ~ achromatise, achromatize | remove color from.; "achromatize the lenses" |
| ~ collimate, parallel | make or place parallel to something.; "They paralleled the ditch to the highway" |
| ~ camp | give an artificially banal or sexual quality to. |
| ~ classicise, classicize | make classic or classical. |
| ~ conventionalise, conventionalize | make conventional or adapt to conventions.; "conventionalized behavior" |
| ~ decimalise, decimalize | change from fractions to decimals.; "Stock prices will be decimalized in the year 2000" |
| ~ dizzy | make dizzy or giddy.; "a dizzying pace" |
| ~ envenom, poison | add poison to.; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her" |
| ~ exteriorise, objectify, exteriorize, externalise, externalize | make external or objective, or give reality to.; "language externalizes our thoughts" |
| ~ glamorise, glamourize, glamorize, glamourise | make glamorous and attractive.; "This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!" |
| ~ introvert | turn inside.; "He introverted his feelings" |
| ~ laicise, laicize | reduce to lay status.; "laicize the parochial schools" |
| ~ politicise, politicize | give a political character to.; "politicize the discussion" |
| ~ radicalize | make more radical in social or political outlook.; "Her work in the developing world radicalized her" |
| ~ proof | activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk.; "proof yeast" |
| ~ romanticise, romanticize | make romantic in style.; "The designer romanticized the little black dress" |
| ~ rusticate | lend a rustic character to.; "rusticate the house in the country" |
| ~ sauce | add zest or flavor to, make more interesting.; "sauce the roast" |
| ~ shallow, shoal | make shallow.; "The silt shallowed the canal" |
| ~ tense | increase the tension on.; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring" |
| ~ steepen | make steeper.; "The landslides have steepened the mountain sides" |
| ~ scramble | make unintelligible.; "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it" |
| ~ unscramble | make intelligible.; "Can you unscramble the message?" |
| ~ unsex | remove the qualities typical of one's sex.; "She unsexed herself" |
| ~ vitrify | change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat. |
| ~ pall | cause to become flat.; "pall the beer" |
| ~ saponify | convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali.; "saponify oils and fats" |
| ~ expand, extend | expand the influence of.; "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent" |
| ~ set aside, suspend | make inoperative or stop.; "suspend payments on the loan" |
| ~ muddy | make turbid.; "muddy the water" |
| ~ transform | subject to a mathematical transformation. |
| ~ elevate, lift, raise | raise in rank or condition.; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" |
| ~ harshen | make harsh or harsher.; "Winter harshened the look of the city" |
| ~ dinge | make dingy. |
| ~ demonise, demonize | make into a demon.; "Power had demonized him" |
| ~ devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize | turn into a devil or make devilish.; "Man devilized by war" |
| ~ etherealize, etherialise | make ethereal. |
| ~ immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize | render immaterial or incorporeal. |
| ~ animise, animize, animate | give lifelike qualities to.; "animated cartoons" |
| ~ clear | make clear, bright, light, or translucent.; "The water had to be cleared through filtering" |
| ~ dynamise, dynamize | make (a drug) effective.; "dynamized medicine" |
| ~ dynamise, dynamize | make more dynamic.; "She was dynamized by her desire to go to grad school" |
| ~ rarefy, sublimate, subtilize | make more subtle or refined. |
| ~ volatilise, volatilize | make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor. |
| ~ uniformise, uniformize | make uniform.; "the data have been uniformized" |
| ~ symmetrise, symmetrize | make symmetric.; "symmetrized waves" |
| ~ eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize | make famous forever.; "This melody immortalized its composer" |
| ~ denature | make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes. |
| ~ denature | modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished. |
| ~ denature | add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb. |
| ~ sanitise, sanitize | make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features.; "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"; "sanitize history"; "sanitize the language in a book" |
| ~ verbify | make into a verb.; "'mouse' has been verbified by computer users" |
| ~ shift | move from one setting or context to another.; "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention" |
| ~ sputter | cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed.; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust" |
| ~ draw | bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition.; "She was drawn to despair"; "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum"; "The session was drawn to a close" |
| ~ make | change from one form into another.; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks" |
| ~ dope | add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties.; "The resistors have been doped" |
| ~ prostrate | render helpless or defenseless.; "They prostrated the enemy" |
| ~ excite | produce a magnetic field in.; "excite the neurons" |
| ~ energise, energize, excite | raise to a higher energy level.; "excite the atoms" |
| ~ shake | bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking.; "He was shaken from his dreams"; "shake the salt out of the salt shaker" |
| ~ outmode | make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete.; "Modern ways of cooking have outmoded the hearth" |
| ~ spice, spice up | make more interesting or flavorful.; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer" |
| ~ shorten | make short or shorter.; "shorten the skirt"; "shorten the rope by a few inches" |
| ~ think | bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation.; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam" |
| ~ make | cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable.; "make my day" |
| ~ deflate | produce deflation in.; "The new measures deflated the economy" |
| ~ inflate | cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit.; "The war inflated the economy" |
| ~ reflate | economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation.; "These measures reflated the economy" |
| ~ digitalise, digitalize, digitise, digitize | put into digital form, as for use in a computer.; "he bought a device to digitize the data" |
| ~ gelatinise, gelatinize | convert into gelatinous form or jelly.; "hot water will gelatinize starch" |
| ~ recombine | cause genetic recombination.; "should scientists recombine DNA?" |
| ~ effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize | to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to.; "This hairdo feminizes the man" |
| ~ masculinise, virilise, virilize, masculinize | produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy.; "the drugs masculinized the teenage girl" |
| ~ masculinize | give a masculine appearance or character to.; "Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s" |
| ~ disharmonize, dissonate | cause to sound harsh and unpleasant. |
| ~ sexualise, sexualize | make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to.; "The god was sexualized and married to another god"; "Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender" |
| ~ schematise, schematize | give conventional form to.; "some art forms schematise designs into geometrical patterns" |
| ~ patent | make open to sight or notice.; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him" |
| ~ constitutionalise, constitutionalize | incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional.; "A woman's right to an abortion was constitutionalized in the 1970's" |
| ~ rationalise, rationalize | remove irrational quantities from.; "This function can be rationalized" |
| ~ plasticise, plasticize | make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer.; "plasticized PVC" |
| ~ rarefy | lessen the density or solidity of.; "The bones are rarefied" |
| ~ paganise, paganize | make pagan in character.; "The Church paganized Christianity" |
| ~ incandesce | cause to become incandescent or glow.; "the lamp was incandesced" |
| ~ deaminate, deaminize | remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination. |
| ~ angulate | make or become angular. |
| ~ circularize | make circular. |
| ~ sensitise, sensitize | make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion.; "sensitize the photographic film" |
| ~ sensitise, sensitize | make sensitive to a drug or allergen.; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen" |
| ~ depolarise, depolarize | eliminate the polarization of. |
| ~ intensify | make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark. |
| ~ isomerise, isomerize | cause to change into an isomer. |
| ~ legitimate | make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone).; "They legitimized their natural child" |
| ~ vaporise, evaporate | cause to change into a vapor.; "The chemist evaporated the water" |
| ~ industrialise, industrialize | organize (the production of something) into an industry.; "The Chinese industrialized textile production" |
| ~ opacify | make opaque.; "The glass was opacified more greater privacy" |
| ~ opsonize | make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes. |
| ~ militarise, militarize | adopt for military use.; "militarize the Civil Service" |
| ~ nationalise, nationalize | make national in character or scope.; "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press" |
| ~ recommend | make attractive or acceptable.; "Honesty recommends any person" |
| ~ sentimentalise, sentimentalize | make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities.; "Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind"; "These experiences have sentimentalized her" |
| ~ solemnise, solemnize | make solemn and grave.; "This ceremony solemnized our hearts" |
| ~ territorialise, territorialize | place on a territorial basis.; "The railways were territorialized" |
| ~ transaminate | change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another. |
| ~ transfigure, spiritualize, glorify | elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration. |
| ~ unsanctify | remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified. |
| ~ vesiculate | cause to become vesicular or full of air cells.; "vesiculate an organ" |
| ~ visualise, visualize | make visible.; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized" |
| ~ variegate | change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors. |
| ~ ventilate | furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape.; "The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space" |
| ~ vivify | make more striking or animated.; "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story" |
| ~ vulgarise, vulgarize | debase and make vulgar.; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage" |
| ~ supple | make pliant and flexible.; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use" |
| ~ professionalise, professionalize | make professional or give a professional character to.; "Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs" |
| ~ smut | make obscene.; "This line in the play smuts the entire act" |
| ~ still | make motionless. |
| ~ weaponize | make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon.; "Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?" |
| ~ eroticize, sex up | give erotic character to or make more interesting.; "eroticize the ads" |
| ~ piggyback | bring into alignment with.; "an amendment to piggyback the current law" |
| ~ port | modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform. |
| ~ lifehack | make one's day-to-day activities more efficient. |
| ~ cloud | make less clear.; "the stroke clouded memories of her youth" |
| ~ obnubilate, obscure, blur, confuse | make unclear, indistinct, or blurred.; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions" |
| ~ tame, tone down, moderate | make less strong or intense; soften.; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" |
| ~ obfuscate | make obscure or unclear. |
| ~ synchronise, synchronize | make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action.; "synchronize this film" |
| ~ mince, moderate, soften | make less severe or harsh.; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears" |
| ~ militarise, militarize | lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.; "militarize Germany again after the war" |
| ~ break down, crush | make ineffective.; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination" |
| ~ fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, flesh out, plump out, plump, fill out | make fat or plump.; "We will plump out that poor starving child" |
| ~ disturb, touch | tamper with.; "Don't touch my CDs!" |
| ~ dull | make dull in appearance.; "Age had dulled the surface" |
| ~ blunt, dull | make dull or blunt.; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" |
| ~ sharpen | make sharp or sharper.; "sharpen the knives" |
| ~ coarsen | make or become coarse or coarser.; "coarsen the surface"; "Their minds coarsened" |
| ~ loosen | make less dense.; "loosen the soil" |
| ~ untie, undo, loosen | cause to become loose.; "undo the shoelace"; "untie the knot"; "loosen the necktie" |
| ~ barb | provide with barbs.; "barbed wire" |
| ~ string | provide with strings.; "string my guitar" |
| ~ straighten, straighten out | make straight. |
| ~ bring | cause to come into a particular state or condition.; "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point" |
| ~ amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify, mix | to bring or combine together or with something else.; "resourcefully he mingled music and dance" |
| ~ charge | fill or load to capacity.; "charge the wagon with hay" |
| ~ put | cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation.; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing" |
| ~ clean, make clean | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from.; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" |
| ~ begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | make soiled, filthy, or dirty.; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" |
| ~ depress, lower | cause to drop or sink.; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir" |
| ~ deform | make formless.; "the heat deformed the plastic sculpture" |
| ~ break up, break | destroy the completeness of a set of related items.; "The book dealer would not break the set" |
| ~ alter | make an alteration to.; "This dress needs to be altered" |
| ~ adorn, decorate, grace, ornament, beautify, embellish | make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc..; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" |
| ~ humanise, humanize | make more humane.; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city" |
| ~ humble | cause to be unpretentious.; "This experience will humble him" |
| ~ alienate, disaffect, alien, estrange | arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness.; "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious" |
| ~ right | put in or restore to an upright position.; "They righted the sailboat that had capsized" |
| ~ desensitise, desensitize | cause not to be sensitive.; "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized" |
| ~ deodorise, deodorize, deodourise | eliminate the odor from.; "This stick will deodorize your armpits" |
| ~ develop | make visible by means of chemical solutions.; "Please develop this roll of film for me" |
| ~ blur | to make less distinct or clear.; "The haze blurs the hills" |
| ~ blind | make blind by putting the eyes out.; "The criminals were punished and blinded" |
| ~ change intensity | increase or decrease in intensity. |
| ~ change taste | alter the flavor of. |
| ~ interchange, substitute, replace, 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" |
| ~ capture | bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit.; "This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons"; "The star captured a comet" |
| ~ contribute, lend, impart, add, bestow, bring | bestow a quality on.; "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program" |
| ~ reestablish, reinstate, restore | bring back into original existence, use, function, or position.; "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the region"; "restore the emperor to the throne" |
| ~ liberalize, liberalise | make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules. |
| ~ redress, right, correct, compensate | make reparations or amends for.; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust" |
| ~ democratise, democratize | introduce democratic reforms; of nations. |
| ~ neutralize | make politically neutral and thus inoffensive.; "The treaty neutralized the small republic" |
| ~ corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, vitiate, subvert | corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality.; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" |
| ~ loosen, relax | make less severe or strict.; "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught" |
| ~ unify, unite | bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation.; "the Democratic Patry platform united several splinter groups" |
| ~ flocculate | cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate.; "The chemist flocculated the suspended material" |
| ~ turn | cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics.; "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold" |
| ~ cohere | cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole.; "Religion can cohere social groups" |
| v. (change) | 12. change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ refreshen, freshen, freshen up, refresh | become or make oneself fresh again.; "She freshened up after the tennis game" |
| ~ dress, get dressed | put on clothes.; "we had to dress quickly"; "dress the patient"; "Can the child dress by herself?" |
| ~ acquire, develop, produce, grow, get | come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes).; "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts" |
| ~ regenerate | undergo regeneration. |
| ~ shade | pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree.; "the butterfly wings shade to yellow" |
| ~ gel | become a gel.; "The solid, when heated, gelled" |
| ~ animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize | become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling. |
| ~ convert | change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change.; "The substance converts to an acid" |
| ~ creolize | develop into a creole.; "pidgins often creolize" |
| ~ mutate | undergo mutation.; "cells mutate" |
| ~ experience, have | undergo.; "The stocks had a fast run-up" |
| ~ decrepitate | undergo decrepitation and crackle.; "The salt decrepitated" |
| ~ suburbanise, suburbanize | take on suburban character.; "the city suburbanized" |
| ~ roll up, roll | show certain properties when being rolled.; "The carpet rolls unevenly"; "dried-out tobacco rolls badly" |
| ~ glass over, glaze, glaze over, glass | become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance.; "Her eyes glaze over when she is bored" |
| ~ grow, turn | pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become.; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" |
| ~ barbarise, barbarize | become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language. |
| ~ alkalinise, alkalinize | become alkaline. |
| ~ change by reversal, reverse, turn | 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" |
| ~ change integrity | change in physical make-up. |
| ~ change form, change shape, deform | assume a different shape or form. |
| ~ form | assume a form or shape.; "the water formed little beads" |
| ~ change state, turn | undergo a transformation or a change of position or action.; "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election" |
| ~ adapt, conform, adjust | adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" |
| ~ climb up, jump, rise | rise in rank or status.; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" |
| ~ assimilate | become similar in sound.; "The nasal assimilates to the following consonant" |
| ~ dissimilate | become dissimilar or less similar.; "These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time" |
| ~ dissimilate | become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities.; "These consonants dissimilate" |
| ~ change magnitude | change in size or magnitude. |
| ~ modify | make less severe or harsh or extreme.; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" |
| ~ deaden | become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor. |
| ~ break | be broken in.; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress" |
| ~ decay, dilapidate, crumble | fall into decay or ruin.; "The unoccupied house started to decay" |
| ~ mildew, mold | become moldy; spoil due to humidity.; "The furniture molded in the old house" |
| ~ hydrate | become hydrated and combine with water. |
| ~ dry out, dry | become dry or drier.; "The laundry dries in the sun" |
| ~ strengthen | gain strength.; "His body strengthened" |
| ~ distill, distil | undergo the process of distillation. |
| ~ deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce | to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons. |
| ~ crack | break into simpler molecules by means of heat.; "The petroleum cracked" |
| ~ oxidise, oxidate, oxidize | add oxygen to or combine with oxygen. |
| ~ oxidate, oxidize, oxidise | enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide.; "This metal oxidizes easily" |
| ~ grow | become attached by or as if by the process of growth.; "The tree trunks had grown together" |
| ~ mellow out, mellow, melt | become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial.; "With age, he mellowed" |
| ~ soften | become soft or softer.; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it" |
| ~ ionise, ionize | become converted into ions. |
| ~ stabilise, stabilize | become stable or more stable.; "The economy stabilized" |
| ~ destabilise, destabilize | become unstable.; "The economy destabilized rapidly" |
| ~ lighten up, lighten | become lighter.; "The room lightened up" |
| ~ discolour, discolor, color, colour | change color, often in an undesired manner.; "The shirts discolored" |
| ~ discolor | lose color or turn colorless.; "The painting discolored" |
| ~ narrow, contract | make or become more narrow or restricted.; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed" |
| ~ darken | become dark or darker.; "The sky darkened" |
| ~ dim | become dim or lusterless.; "the lights dimmed and the curtain rose" |
| ~ boil | immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes.; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool" |
| ~ crack, check, break | become fractured; break or crack on the surface only.; "The glass cracked when it was heated" |
| ~ transpire | come to light; become known.; "It transpired that she had worked as spy in East Germany" |
| ~ resume, take up | return to a previous location or condition.; "The painting resumed its old condition when we restored it" |
| ~ change surface | undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface. |
| ~ sublime, sublimate | vaporize and then condense right back again. |
| ~ cool down, cool off, cool | lose intensity.; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably" |
| ~ warm up | become more friendly or open.; "She warmed up after we had lunch together" |
| ~ warm, warm up | get warm or warmer.; "The soup warmed slowly on the stove" |
| ~ transmute, metamorphose, transform | change in outward structure or looks.; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" |
| ~ convert | change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.; "She converted to Buddhism" |
| ~ dull | become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness.; "the varnished table top dulled with time" |
| ~ complexify, ramify | have or develop complicating consequences.; "These actions will ramify" |
| ~ americanise, americanize | become American in character.; "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized" |
| ~ modernise, modernize, develop | become technologically advanced.; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly" |
| ~ stiffen | become stiff or stiffer.; "He stiffened when he saw his boss enter the room" |
| ~ tighten | become tight or tighter.; "The rope tightened" |
| ~ conk out, go bad, break down, die, fail, give out, give way, break, go | stop operating or functioning.; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident" |
| ~ yield, give way | end resistance, as under pressure or force.; "The door yielded to repeated blows with a battering ram" |
| ~ harden, indurate | become hard or harder.; "The wax hardened" |
| ~ harden, indurate | make hard or harder.; "The cold hardened the butter" |
| ~ suffuse | to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light.; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew" |
| ~ hush | become quiet or still; fall silent.; "hush my baby!" |
| ~ normalise, normalize | become normal or return to its normal state.; "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon" |
| ~ reorient | set or arrange in a new or different determinate position.; "Orient the house towards the South" |
| ~ purify | become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin.; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify" |
| ~ digest | become assimilated into the body.; "Protein digests in a few hours" |
| ~ regress | go back to a statistical means. |
| ~ foul | become soiled and dirty. |
| ~ decalcify | lose calcium or calcium compounds. |
| ~ industrialise, industrialize | develop industry; become industrial.; "The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West" |
| ~ decarboxylate | lose a carboxyl group.; "the compound decarboxylated" |
| ~ spot | become spotted.; "This dress spots quickly" |
| ~ incur, obtain, receive, get, find | receive a specified treatment (abstract).; "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" |
| ~ acetylate, acetylise, acetylize | receive substitution of an acetyl group.; "the compounds acetylated" |
| ~ take on, acquire, assume, adopt, take | take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect.; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" |
| ~ prim | assume a prim appearance.; "They mince and prim" |
| ~ capacitate | cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg. |
| ~ caseate | become cheeselike.; "necrotic tissue caseates" |
| ~ caseate | turn into cheese.; "The milk caseated" |
| ~ clinker | turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning. |
| ~ cure | be or become preserved.; "the apricots cure in the sun" |
| ~ dawn | become light.; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up" |
| ~ salinate | add salt to.; "salinated solution" |
| ~ desalinate, desalinise, desalinize, desalt | remove salt from.; "desalinate water" |
| ~ shallow, shoal | become shallow.; "the lake shallowed over time" |
| ~ steepen | become steeper.; "The mountain side has steepened" |
| ~ superannuate | become obsolete. |
| ~ ulcerate | undergo ulceration.; "Her stomach ulcerated" |
| ~ vitrify | undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like. |
| ~ vulcanise, vulcanize | undergo vulcanization.; "vulcanize rubber" |
| ~ pall, dull | become less interesting or attractive. |
| ~ become flat, pall, die | lose sparkle or bouquet.; "wine and beer can pall" |
| ~ saponify | become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali.; "the oil saponified" |
| ~ move, go, run | progress by being changed.; "The speech has to go through several more drafts"; "run through your presentation before the meeting" |
| ~ come | reach or enter a state, relation, condition, use, or position.; "The water came to a boil"; "We came to understand the true meaning of life"; "Their anger came to a boil"; "I came to realize the true meaning of life"; "The shoes came untied"; "come into contact with a terrorist group"; "his face went red"; "your wish will come true" |
| ~ catch | be struck or affected by.; "catch fire"; "catch the mood" |
| ~ catch on | become popular.; "This fashion caught on in Paris" |
| ~ grow, develop | grow emotionally or mature.; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior" |
| ~ fly | change quickly from one emotional state to another.; "fly into a rage" |
| ~ develop, evolve, acquire | gain through experience.; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting" |
| ~ assibilate | change into a sibilant.; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese" |
| ~ smoothen | become smooth. |
| ~ turn on | become hostile towards.; "The dog suddenly turned on the mailman" |
| ~ drop | change from one level to another.; "She dropped into army jargon" |
| ~ break into | change pace.; "The dancers broke into a cha-cha"; "The horse broke into a gallop" |
| ~ deepen, change | become deeper in tone.; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" |
| ~ concretise, concretize | become specific.; "the idea concretized in her mind" |
| ~ decay | undergo decay or decomposition.; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated" |
| ~ commute, transpose | exchange positions without a change in value.; "These operators commute with each other" |
| ~ introject | incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously. |
| ~ shift | change in quality.; "His tone shifted" |
| ~ swing | alternate dramatically between high and low values.; "his mood swings"; "the market is swinging up and down" |
| ~ fall | be cast down.; "his eyes fell" |
| ~ fall | assume a disappointed or sad expression.; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell" |
| ~ reflate | economics: experience reflation.; "The economy reflated after the Fed took extreme measures" |
| ~ hydrolyse, hydrolyze | undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water. |
| ~ fold up, fold | become folded or folded up.; "The bed folds in a jiffy" |
| ~ gelatinise, gelatinize | become gelatinous or change into a jelly.; "the starch gelatinized when it was heated" |
| ~ felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up, mat, felt | change texture so as to become matted and felt-like.; "The fabric felted up after several washes" |
| ~ recombine | undergo genetic recombination.; "The DNA can recombine" |
| ~ feminise, feminize | assume (more) feminine characteristics.; "feminized language"; "feminized frogs" |
| ~ obsolesce | become obsolete, fall into disuse.; "This word has not obsolesced, although it is rarely used" |
| ~ plasticise, plasticize | become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added. |
| ~ recede | become faint or more distant.; "the unhappy memories of her childhood receded as she grew older" |
| ~ defervesce | experience an abatement of a fever. |
| ~ incandesce | become incandescent or glow with heat.; "an incandescing body" |
| ~ calcify | become inflexible and unchanging.; "Old folks can calcify" |
| ~ drift | be subject to fluctuation.; "The stock market drifted upward" |
| ~ play out | become spent or exhausted.; "The champion's strength played out fast" |
| ~ conjugate | undergo conjugation. |
| ~ isomerise, isomerize | change into an isomer. |
| ~ vaporise, evaporate | change into a vapor.; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes" |
| ~ indurate | become fixed or established.; "indurated customs" |
| ~ gradate | pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another.; "The paint on these walls gradates but you don't see it" |
| ~ keratinise, keratinize | become horny and impregnated with keratin. |
| ~ opacify | become opaque.; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind" |
| ~ mature | become due for repayment.; "These bonds mature in 2005" |
| ~ rejuvenate | develop youthful topographical features.; "the land rejuvenated" |
| ~ sequester | undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion.; "The cations were sequestered" |
| ~ transaminate | undergo transfer from one compound to another.; "amino groups can transaminate" |
| ~ vesiculate | become vesicular or full of air cells.; "The organs vesiculated" |
| ~ undulate | increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves.; "The singer's voice undulated" |
| ~ vascularise, vascularize | become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids.; "The egg yolk vascularized" |
| ~ crash | undergo a sudden and severe downturn.; "the economy crashed"; "will the stock market crash again?" |
| ~ professionalise, professionalize | become professional or proceed in a professional manner or in an activity for pay or as a means of livelihood. |
| ~ shift | change phonetically as part of a systematic historical change.; "Grimm showed how the consonants shifted" |
| ~ flip out, flip | go mad, go crazy.; "He flipped when he heard that he was being laid off" |
| ~ gum | become sticky. |
| ~ repress | block the action of. |
| ~ shear | become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain. |
| ~ damage | suffer or be susceptible to damage.; "These fine china cups damage easily" |
| ~ synthesize | combine and form a synthesis.; "Vitamin D only synthesizes when sunlight is available" |
| ~ come around, come round | change one's position or opinion.; "He came around to our point of view" |
| ~ promote | be changed for a superior chess or checker piece. |
| ~ divide, part, separate | come apart.; "The two pieces that we had glued separated" |
| ~ format, arrange | set (printed matter) into a specific format.; "Format this letter so it can be printed out" |
| ~ fall for | fall in love with; become infatuated with.; "She fell for the man from Brazil" |
| ~ move up, rise, ascend | move to a better position in life or to a better job.; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great" |
| ~ change posture | undergo a change in bodily posture. |
| ~ settle | become clear by the sinking of particles.; "the liquid gradually settled" |
| ~ cave in, collapse, fall in, give way, founder, give, break | break down, literally or metaphorically.; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice" |
| ~ undergo | pass through.; "The chemical undergoes a sudden change"; "The fluid undergoes shear"; "undergo a strange sensation" |
| ~ solarise, solarize | become overexposed.; "The film solarized" |
| ~ occult | become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished.; "The beam of light occults every so often" |
| ~ pass | transfer to another; of rights or property.; "Our house passed under his official control" |
| ~ pull up stakes, depart, leave | remove oneself from an association with or participation in.; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes" |
| ~ liberalise, liberalize | become more liberal.; "The laws liberalized after Prohibition" |
| ~ stratify | develop different social levels, classes, or castes.; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens" |
| ~ democratise, democratize | become (more) democratic; of nations. |
| ~ loosen, relax | become less severe or strict.; "The rules relaxed after the new director arrived" |
| ~ reticulate | form a net or a network. |
| ~ flocculate | form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass.; "the protoplasms flocculated" |
| ~ carbonate | turn into a carbonate. |
| ~ come in | come into fashion; become fashionable. |
| ~ go out | go out of fashion; become unfashionable. |
| ~ stagnate | cause to stagnate.; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters" |
| ~ make | undergo fabrication or creation.; "This wool makes into a nice sweater" |
| ~ frost over, ice over, ice up | become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window.; "When the wings iced up, the pilot was forced to land his plane" |
| v. (change) | 13. alter, change, vary | become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" |
| ~ alternate, jump | go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions. |
| ~ crackle | to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks.; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand" |
| ~ modulate | vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves). |
| ~ avianise, avianize | to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo. |
| ~ move | go or proceed from one point to another.; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" |
| ~ adapt, accommodate | make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose.; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" |
| ~ widen, let out | make (clothes) larger.; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight" |
| ~ take in | make (clothes) smaller.; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" |
| ~ branch out, broaden, diversify | vary in order to spread risk or to expand.; "The company diversified" |
| ~ diversify, radiate | spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate.; "The plants on this island diversified" |
| ~ specialize, narrow down, narrow, specialise | become more focus on an area of activity or field of study.; "She specializes in Near Eastern history" |
| ~ honeycomb | make full of cavities, like a honeycomb. |
| ~ break | vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity.; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" |
| v. (change) | 14. change, shift, switch | lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" |
| ~ exchange, convert, commute, change | 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" |
| ~ change | change clothes; put on different clothes.; "Change before you go to the opera" |
| ~ transition | make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another).; "The airline transitioned to more fuel-efficient jets"; "The adagio transitioned into an allegro" |
| ~ shift | change gears.; "you have to shift when you go down a steep hill" |
| ~ break | change suddenly from one tone quality or register to another.; "Her voice broke to a whisper when she started to talk about her children" |
| ~ channel-surf, surf | switch channels, on television. |
| ~ leap, jump | pass abruptly from one state or topic to another.; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another" |
| ~ diphthongise, diphthongize | change from a simple vowel to a diphthong.; "This vowel diphthongized in Germanic" |
| ~ cut | make an abrupt change of image or sound.; "cut from one scene to another" |
| ~ break | change directions suddenly. |
| v. (change) | 15. change | change clothes; put on different clothes.; "Change before you go to the opera" |
| ~ dress, get dressed | put on clothes.; "we had to dress quickly"; "dress the patient"; "Can the child dress by herself?" |
| ~ switch, change, shift | lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" |
| v. (change) | 16. change, commute, convert, exchange | 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" |
| ~ rectify | convert into direct current.; "rectify alternating current" |
| ~ utilize | convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust). |
| ~ capitalise, capitalize | convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ launder | convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones. |
| ~ switch, change, shift | lay aside, abandon, or leave for another.; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes" |
| ~ break | exchange for smaller units of money.; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy" |
| v. (possession) | 17. change, exchange, 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" |
| ~ sell | exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent.; "He sold his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit" |
| ~ cash, cash in | exchange for cash.; "I cashed the check as soon as it arrived in the mail" |
| ~ ransom, redeem | exchange or buy back for money; under threat. |
| ~ redeem | to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange. |
| ~ stand in, sub, substitute, fill in | be a substitute.; "The young teacher had to substitute for the sick colleague"; "The skim milk substitutes for cream--we are on a strict diet" |
| ~ swap, swop, switch, trade | exchange or give (something) in exchange for. |
| ~ barter | exchange goods without involving money. |
| ~ trade in, trade | turn in as payment or part payment for a purchase.; "trade in an old car for a new one" |
| v. (motion) | 18. change, transfer | change from one vehicle or transportation line to another.; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast" |
| ~ go, locomote, move, travel | change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically.; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" |
| v. (change) | 19. change, deepen | become deeper in tone.; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| v. (change) | 20. change | remove or replace the coverings of.; "Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens" |
| ~ 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" |
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