change#1 (v)
alter#1 (v)
modify#10 (v)

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type v
lex_filenum 30
def cause to change
def make different
def cause a transformation
examples The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city
The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
Frame - 8 Somebody ----s something
Frame - 9 Somebody ----s somebody
Frame - 10 Something ----s somebody
Frame - 11 Something ----s something
Outgoing links
Cause change
Derivationally related form modify → modifiable
Derivationally related form modify → modification
Derivationally related form alter → alterable; alter → alteration
Derivationally related form alter → alteration
Derivationally related form change → changer; change → change; change → change; change → change; change → change; change → change
Hyponym awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse; cause to sleep; affect; refresh, freshen, refreshen; inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise; indispose; cry; etiolate; shade; brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise; convert; opalize, opalise; arterialize, arterialise; make, get; counterchange, transpose, interchange; vascularize, vascularise; decrepitate; suburbanize, suburbanise; revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn; etiolate; barbarize, barbarise; alkalinize, alkalinise; mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise; allegorize, allegorise; demythologize, demythologise; bring, land; coarsen; affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch; alchemize, alchemise; alcoholize, alcoholise; shape, form; round off, round down, round out, round; suspend; sober; reconstruct; increase; ease up, ease off, let up; assimilate; dissimilate; commute, convert, exchange; vitalize, vitalise; unclutter, clear; activate; activate; activate, aerate; activate; inactivate, deactivate; deaden, blunt; remodel, reconstruct, redo; edit, redact; edit, cut, edit out; tame, chasten, subdue; chasten, moderate, temper; better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate; worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate; wet; dry, dry out; lubricate; strengthen, beef up, fortify; spike, lace, fortify; weaken; blunt; oxidize, oxidise, oxidate; unite, unify, merge; age; ripen, mature; antique, antiquate; antiquate; develop, make grow; soften; damage; ossify; acerbate; stabilize, stabilise; destabilize, destabilise; sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise; desensitize, desensitise; habituate, accustom; disorder, disarray; discolor; color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in; stain; hue; uglify; untune; adjust, set, correct; set; disqualify, unfit, indispose; domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame; widen; dehydrogenate; hydrogenate; oxygenize, oxygenise; darken; brighten, lighten up, lighten; blur, blear; obscure, bedim, overcloud; obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide; cook; slenderize, slenderise; crack; dissolve, dismiss; end, terminate; demist, defog; condense, concentrate, contract; cool, chill, cool down; heat, heat up; warm; boil; freeze; blister; switch, change over, shift; transpose; convert, change over; transform; transform; transform; transmute; transform, transmute, transubstantiate; ash; translate, transform; reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify; convert; Islamize, Islamise; turn back, invert, reverse; invert; customize, customise; personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise; depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify; sharpen; flatten, drop; disintegrate; magnetize, magnetise; demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss; simplify; complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate; refine; complicate, perplex; supercharge, pressurize, pressurise; centralize, centralise, concentrate; decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise; socialize, socialise; fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set; internationalize, internationalise; communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise; Europeanize, Europeanise; Europeanize, Europeanise; bestialize, bestialise; Americanize, Americanise; Frenchify; civilize, civilise; nationalize, nationalise; denationalize, denationalise; naturalize, naturalise; denaturalize, denaturalise; naturalize, naturalise; denaturalize, denaturalise; even, even out; equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate; stiffen; loosen, loose; tighten, fasten; transitivize, transitivise; detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise; thicken, inspissate; full; diversify; decelerate, slow down; deaden; accelerate, speed, speed up; check, retard, delay; decrease, lessen, minify; liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise; solvate; dissolve; validate; invalidate, void, vitiate; empty; fill, fill up, make full; saturate; clot, coagulate; louden; normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise; morph; neutralize, neutralise; commercialize, commercialise, market; purify, purge, sanctify; mechanize, mechanise; automatize, automatise, automate; automatize, automatise; mechanize, mechanise; harmonize, harmonise, chord; polarize, polarise; glorify; contaminate; devalue; insulate; calcify; urbanize, urbanise; urbanize, urbanise; emulsify; demulsify; decarboxylate; nazify; fertilize, fecundate, fertilise; clarify; embrittle; mark; nick; disable, disenable, incapacitate; enable; de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress; tender, tenderize, tenderise; charge; bubble; sweeten; iodinate; ionate; archaize, archaise; inform; officialize, officialise; occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise; orientalize, orientalise; acetylate, acetylize, acetylise; achromatize, achromatise; parallel, collimate; camp; classicize, classicise; conventionalize, conventionalise; decimalize, decimalise; dizzy; poison, envenom; exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify; glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise; introvert; laicize, laicise; politicize, politicise; radicalize; proof; romanticize, romanticise; rusticate; sauce; shallow, shoal; tense; steepen; scramble; unscramble; unsex; vitrify; pall; saponify; extend, expand; suspend, set aside; muddy; transform; lift, raise, elevate; harshen; dinge; demonize, demonise; devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise; etherealize, etherialise; immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise; animize, animise, animate; clear; dynamize, dynamise; dynamize, dynamise; rarefy, sublimate, subtilize; volatilize, volatilise; uniformize, uniformise; symmetrize, symmetrise; immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise; denature; denature; denature; sanitize, sanitise; verbify; shift; sputter; draw; make; dope; prostrate; excite; excite, energize, energise; shake; outmode; spice, spice up; shorten; think; make; deflate; inflate; reflate; digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise; gelatinize, gelatinise; recombine; feminize, feminise, effeminize, effeminise, womanize; masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise; masculinize; disharmonize, dissonate; sexualize, sexualise; schematize, schematise; patent; constitutionalize, constitutionalise; rationalize, rationalise; plasticize, plasticise; rarefy; paganize, paganise; incandesce; deaminate, deaminize; angulate; circularize; sensitize, sensitise; sensitize, sensitise; depolarize, depolarise; intensify; isomerize, isomerise; legitimate; evaporate, vaporise; industrialize, industrialise; opacify; opsonize; militarize, militarise; nationalize, nationalise; recommend; sentimentalize, sentimentalise; solemnize, solemnise; territorialize, territorialise; transaminate; transfigure, glorify, spiritualize; unsanctify; vesiculate; visualize, visualise; variegate; ventilate; vivify; vulgarise, vulgarize; supple; professionalize, professionalise; smut; still; weaponize; eroticize, sex up; piggyback; port; lifehack; cloud; confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate; tone down, moderate, tame; obfuscate; synchronize, synchronise; mince, soften, moderate; militarize, militarise; break down, crush; fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up; touch, disturb; dull; dull, blunt; sharpen; coarsen; loosen; untie, undo, loosen; barb; string; straighten, straighten out; bring; mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate; charge; put; clean, make clean; dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire; lower, depress; deform; break, break up; alter; decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify; humanize, humanise; humble; estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect; right; desensitize, desensitise; deodorize, deodorise, deodourise; develop; blur; blind; change intensity; change taste; substitute, replace, interchange, exchange; capture; lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring; restore, reinstate, reestablish; liberalize, liberalise; right, compensate, redress, correct; democratize, democratise; neutralize; corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect; relax, loosen; unite, unify; flocculate; turn; cohere
Incoming links
Derivationally related form alterable → alter; alteration → alter
Derivationally related form modifiable → modify
Derivationally related form change → change; change → change; change → change; changer → change; change → change; change → change
Derivationally related form modification → modify
Derivationally related form alteration → alter
Hypernym awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse; cause to sleep; affect; refresh, freshen, refreshen; inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise; indispose; cry; etiolate; shade; brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise; convert; opalize, opalise; arterialize, arterialise; make, get; counterchange, transpose, interchange; vascularize, vascularise; decrepitate; suburbanize, suburbanise; revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn; etiolate; barbarize, barbarise; alkalinize, alkalinise; mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise; allegorize, allegorise; demythologize, demythologise; bring, land; coarsen; affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch; alchemize, alchemise; alcoholize, alcoholise; shape, form; round off, round down, round out, round; suspend; sober; reconstruct; increase; ease up, ease off, let up; assimilate; dissimilate; commute, convert, exchange; vitalize, vitalise; unclutter, clear; activate; activate; activate, aerate; activate; inactivate, deactivate; deaden, blunt; remodel, reconstruct, redo; edit, redact; edit, cut, edit out; tame, chasten, subdue; chasten, moderate, temper; better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate; worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate; wet; dry, dry out; lubricate; strengthen, beef up, fortify; spike, lace, fortify; weaken; blunt; oxidize, oxidise, oxidate; unite, unify, merge; age; ripen, mature; antique, antiquate; antiquate; develop, make grow; soften; damage; ossify; acerbate; stabilize, stabilise; destabilize, destabilise; sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise; desensitize, desensitise; habituate, accustom; disorder, disarray; discolor; color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in; stain; hue; uglify; untune; adjust, set, correct; set; disqualify, unfit, indispose; domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame; widen; dehydrogenate; hydrogenate; oxygenize, oxygenise; darken; brighten, lighten up, lighten; blur, blear; obscure, bedim, overcloud; obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide; cook; slenderize, slenderise; crack; dissolve, dismiss; end, terminate; demist, defog; condense, concentrate, contract; cool, chill, cool down; heat, heat up; warm; boil; freeze; blister; switch, change over, shift; transpose; convert, change over; transform; transform; transform; transmute; transform, transmute, transubstantiate; ash; translate, transform; reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify; convert; Islamize, Islamise; turn back, invert, reverse; invert; customize, customise; personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise; depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify; sharpen; flatten, drop; disintegrate; magnetize, magnetise; demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss; simplify; complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate; refine; complicate, perplex; supercharge, pressurize, pressurise; centralize, centralise, concentrate; decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise; socialize, socialise; fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set; internationalize, internationalise; communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise; Europeanize, Europeanise; Europeanize, Europeanise; bestialize, bestialise; Americanize, Americanise; Frenchify; civilize, civilise; nationalize, nationalise; denationalize, denationalise; naturalize, naturalise; denaturalize, denaturalise; naturalize, naturalise; denaturalize, denaturalise; even, even out; equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate; stiffen; loosen, loose; tighten, fasten; transitivize, transitivise; detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise; thicken, inspissate; full; diversify; decelerate, slow down; deaden; accelerate, speed, speed up; check, retard, delay; decrease, lessen, minify; liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise; solvate; dissolve; validate; invalidate, void, vitiate; empty; fill, fill up, make full; saturate; clot, coagulate; louden; normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise; morph; neutralize, neutralise; commercialize, commercialise, market; purify, purge, sanctify; mechanize, mechanise; automatize, automatise, automate; automatize, automatise; mechanize, mechanise; harmonize, harmonise, chord; polarize, polarise; glorify; contaminate; devalue; insulate; calcify; urbanize, urbanise; urbanize, urbanise; emulsify; demulsify; decarboxylate; nazify; fertilize, fecundate, fertilise; clarify; embrittle; mark; nick; disable, disenable, incapacitate; enable; de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress; tender, tenderize, tenderise; charge; bubble; sweeten; iodinate; ionate; archaize, archaise; inform; officialize, officialise; occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise; orientalize, orientalise; acetylate, acetylize, acetylise; achromatize, achromatise; parallel, collimate; camp; classicize, classicise; conventionalize, conventionalise; decimalize, decimalise; dizzy; poison, envenom; exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify; glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise; introvert; laicize, laicise; politicize, politicise; radicalize; proof; romanticize, romanticise; rusticate; sauce; shallow, shoal; tense; steepen; scramble; unscramble; unsex; vitrify; pall; saponify; extend, expand; suspend, set aside; muddy; transform; lift, raise, elevate; harshen; dinge; demonize, demonise; devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise; etherealize, etherialise; immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise; animize, animise, animate; clear; dynamize, dynamise; dynamize, dynamise; rarefy, sublimate, subtilize; volatilize, volatilise; uniformize, uniformise; symmetrize, symmetrise; immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise; denature; denature; denature; sanitize, sanitise; verbify; shift; sputter; draw; make; dope; prostrate; excite; excite, energize, energise; shake; outmode; spice, spice up; shorten; think; make; deflate; inflate; reflate; digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise; gelatinize, gelatinise; recombine; feminize, feminise, effeminize, effeminise, womanize; masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise; masculinize; disharmonize, dissonate; sexualize, sexualise; schematize, schematise; patent; constitutionalize, constitutionalise; rationalize, rationalise; plasticize, plasticise; rarefy; paganize, paganise; incandesce; deaminate, deaminize; angulate; circularize; sensitize, sensitise; sensitize, sensitise; depolarize, depolarise; intensify; isomerize, isomerise; legitimate; evaporate, vaporise; industrialize, industrialise; opacify; opsonize; militarize, militarise; nationalize, nationalise; recommend; sentimentalize, sentimentalise; solemnize, solemnise; territorialize, territorialise; transaminate; transfigure, glorify, spiritualize; unsanctify; vesiculate; visualize, visualise; variegate; ventilate; vivify; vulgarise, vulgarize; supple; professionalize, professionalise; smut; still; weaponize; eroticize, sex up; piggyback; port; lifehack; cloud; confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate; tone down, moderate, tame; obfuscate; synchronize, synchronise; mince, soften, moderate; militarize, militarise; break down, crush; fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up; touch, disturb; dull; dull, blunt; sharpen; coarsen; loosen; untie, undo, loosen; barb; string; straighten, straighten out; bring; mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate; charge; put; clean, make clean; dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire; lower, depress; deform; break, break up; alter; decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify; humanize, humanise; humble; estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect; right; desensitize, desensitise; deodorize, deodorise, deodourise; develop; blur; blind; change intensity; change taste; substitute, replace, interchange, exchange; capture; lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring; restore, reinstate, reestablish; liberalize, liberalise; right, compensate, redress, correct; democratize, democratise; neutralize; corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect; relax, loosen; unite, unify; flocculate; turn; cohere

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