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| v. (change) | 1. 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" |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ optimise, optimize | modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost.; "optimize a computer program" |
| ~ attemper | modify the temperature of.; "attemper the air" |
| ~ syncopate | modify the rhythm by stressing or accenting a weak beat. |
| ~ update | modernize or bring up to date.; "We updated the kitchen in the old house" |
| ~ update | bring to the latest state of technology. |
| ~ hop up, soup up, hot up | make more powerful.; "he souped up the old cars" |
| ~ cream | add cream to one's coffee, for example. |
| ~ qualify, restrict | make more specific.; "qualify these remarks" |
| ~ spoil, corrupt | alter from the original. |
| ~ temper, harden | harden by reheating and cooling in oil.; "temper steel" |
| ~ specialise, specialize | suit to a special purpose.; "specialize one's research"; "this kind of beak has become specialized in certain Galapagos finches" |
| ~ buffer | add a buffer (a solution).; "buffered saline solution for the eyes" |
| ~ inflect | change the form of a word in accordance as required by the grammatical rules of the language. |
| ~ cushion, buffer, soften | protect from impact.; "cushion the blow" |
| v. (change) | 2. modify, qualify | add a modifier to a constituent. |
| ~ grammar | the branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics). |
| ~ add | make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table" |
| v. (change) | 3. 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" |
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