| has gloss | (verb) 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"
alter, change, modify |
| lexicalization | eng: alter |
| lexicalization | eng: change |
| lexicalization | eng: modify |
| Note: 361 other subclass(es) ommited in the following list |
| has subclass | (verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"
animalize, animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
| has subclass | (verb) change venous blood into arterial blood
arterialize, arterialise |
| has subclass | (verb) make suburban in character; "highly suburbanized cities"
suburbanize, suburbanise |
| has subclass | (verb) make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge"
dull, blunt |
| has subclass | (verb) make (a substance) alkaline; "The oxide is alkalized"
alkalinize, alkalinise |
| has subclass | (verb) cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir"
lower, depress |
| has subclass | (verb) 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, redact |
| has subclass | (verb) 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"
substitute, replace, exchange, interchange |
| has subclass | (verb) make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"
correct, compensate, right, redress |
| has subclass | (verb) 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"
turn |
| has subclass | (verb) make ugly
uglify |
| has subclass | (verb) cause to be out of tune; "Don't untune that string!"
untune |
| has subclass | (verb) change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt"
convert, change over |
| has subclass | (verb) increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
transform |
| has subclass | (verb) alter the nature of (elements)
transmute |
| has subclass | (verb) 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"
transubstantiate, transform, transmute |
| has subclass | (verb) make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
deaden |
| has subclass | (verb) make smaller; "He decreased his staff"
lessen, minify, decrease |
| has subclass | (verb) cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
saturate |
| has subclass | (verb) make mechanical; "mechanize the procedure"
mechanise, mechanize |
| has subclass | (verb) bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
harmonize, chord, harmonise |
| has subclass | (verb) make more industrial or city-like; "The area was urbanized after many people moved in"
urbanize, urbanise |
| has subclass | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character; "Hitler nazified Germany in the 1930's"; "The arts were nazified everywhere in Germany"
nazify |
| has subclass | (verb) cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid"
bubble |
| has subclass | (verb) give character or essence to; "The principles that inform modern teaching"
inform |
| has subclass | (verb) make shallow; "The silt shallowed the canal"
shoal, shallow |
| has subclass | (verb) 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"
shake |
| has subclass | (verb) to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man"
feminise, feminize, womanize, effeminise, effeminize |
| has subclass | (verb) make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"
patent |
| has subclass | (verb) make or become angular
angulate |
| has subclass | (verb) make sensitive to a drug or allergen; "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
sensitise, sensitize |
| has subclass | (verb) eliminate the polarization of
depolarise, depolarize |
| has subclass | (verb) organize (the production of something) into an industry; "The Chinese industrialized textile production"
industrialise, industrialize |
| has subclass | (verb) make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
opsonize |
| has subclass | (verb) make attractive or acceptable; "Honesty recommends any person"
recommend |
| has subclass | (verb) make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities; "Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind"; "These experiences have sentimentalized her"
sentimentalise, sentimentalize |
| has subclass | (verb) debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage"
vulgarise, vulgarize |
| has subclass | (verb) make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
smut |
| has subclass | (verb) make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon; "Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?"
weaponize |
| has subclass | (verb) give erotic character to or make more interesting; "eroticize the ads"
eroticize, sex up |