| has gloss | (verb) 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"
change |
| lexicalization | eng: change |
| Note: 153 other subclass(es) ommited in the following list |
| has subclass | (verb) undergo mutation; "cells mutate"
mutate |
| has subclass | (verb) pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry"
turn, grow |
| has subclass | (verb) change in physical make-up
change integrity |
| has subclass | (verb) assume a different shape or form
change shape, deform, change form |
| has subclass | (verb) fall in love with; become infatuated with; "She fell for the man from Brazil"
fall for |
| has subclass | (verb) become hydrated and combine with water
hydrate |
| has subclass | (verb) become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun"
dry out, dry |
| has subclass | (verb) undergo the process of distillation
distill, distil |
| has subclass | (verb) add oxygen to or combine with oxygen
oxidize, oxidate, oxidise |
| has subclass | (verb) become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game"
freshen, refresh, freshen up, refreshen |
| has subclass | (verb) become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it"
soften |
| has subclass | (verb) go out of fashion; become unfashionable
go out |
| has subclass | (verb) become lighter; "The room lightened up"
lighten up, lighten |
| has subclass | (verb) immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool"
boil |
| has subclass | (verb) undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface
change surface |
| has subclass | (verb) become American in character; "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized"
Americanise, Americanize |
| has subclass | (verb) 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"
fail, give out, break, go bad, conk out, die, go, give way, break down |
| has subclass | (verb) make hard or harder; "The cold hardened the butter"
harden, indurate |
| has subclass | (verb) to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"
suffuse |
| has subclass | (verb) become quiet or still; fall silent; "hush my baby!"
hush |
| has subclass | (verb) become normal or return to its normal state; "Let us hope that relations with this country will normalize soon"
normalize, normalise |
| has subclass | (verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"
purify |
| has subclass | (verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds
decalcify |
| has subclass | (verb) 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"
acquire, assume, take on, take, adopt |
| has subclass | (verb) turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
clinker |
| has subclass | (verb) remove salt from; "desalinate water"
desalinise, desalinize, desalinate, desalt |
| has subclass | (verb) undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
vitrify |
| has subclass | (verb) change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage"
fly |
| has subclass | (verb) change into a sibilant; "In the syllable /si/, the /s/ sibilates in Japanese"
assibilate |
| has subclass | (verb) become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
change, deepen |
| has subclass | (verb) become specific; "the idea concretized in her mind"
concretise, concretize |
| has subclass | (verb) be cast down; "his eyes fell"
fall |
| has subclass | (verb) become folded or folded up; "The bed folds in a jiffy"
fold up, fold |
| has subclass | (verb) assume (more) feminine characteristics; "feminized language"; "feminized frogs"
feminise, feminize |
| has subclass | (verb) become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added
plasticize, plasticise |
| has subclass | (verb) change into a vapor; "The water evaporated in front of our eyes"
evaporate, vaporise |
| has subclass | (verb) undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion; "The cations were sequestered"
sequester |
| has subclass | (verb) become vesicular or full of air cells; "The organs vesiculated"
vesiculate |
| has subclass | (verb) block the action of
repress |
| has subclass | (verb) combine and form a synthesis; "Vitamin D only synthesizes when sunlight is available"
synthesize |