change state (v)
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type v
lex_filenum 30
def undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
examples We turned from Socialism to Capitalism
The people turned against the President when he stole the election
Frame - 1 Something ----s
Frame - 2 Somebody ----s
Outgoing links
Verb Group become, turn; turn, grow
Hypernym change
Derivationally related form turn → turn; turn → turning
Also see turn → turn around; turn → turn off
Hyponym wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken; zonk out, pass out, black out; come to, revive, resuscitate; tense, tense up; relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down; reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down; gain, put on; dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel; cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise; conceive; secularize, secularise; citrate; equilibrate; fall; become, go, get; worsen, decline; better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate; disengage; overgrow; concentrate; break; acidify, acetify; alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify; ionize, ionise; ossify; catalyze, catalyse; get worse, relapse; fluctuate; explode, burst forth, break loose; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; be born; cloud over; carbonize, carbonise; cool, chill, cool down; heat, hot up, heat up; carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise; freeze; boil; burn, combust; emaciate; Frenchify; thin; thicken, inspissate; solvate; react; dissolve, fade out, fade away; empty, discharge; fill, fill up; homogenize, homogenise; homogenize, homogenise; curdle, clabber, clot; clot, coagulate; sour, turn, ferment, work; integrate; precipitate; calcify; coke; carnify; chondrify; emulsify; denitrify; esterify; etherify; thrombose; open, open up; close, shut; sorb, take up; calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it; thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish; emancipate, liberate; get into, tangle with; liquefy; erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Incoming links
Derivationally related form turning → turn; turn → turn
Hypernym wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken; zonk out, pass out, black out; come to, revive, resuscitate; tense, tense up; relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down; reduce, melt off, lose weight, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down; gain, put on; dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel; cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise; conceive; secularize, secularise; citrate; equilibrate; fall; become, go, get; worsen, decline; better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate; disengage; overgrow; concentrate; break; acidify, acetify; alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify; ionize, ionise; ossify; catalyze, catalyse; get worse, relapse; fluctuate; explode, burst forth, break loose; die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it; be born; cloud over; carbonize, carbonise; cool, chill, cool down; heat, hot up, heat up; carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise; freeze; boil; burn, combust; emaciate; Frenchify; thin; thicken, inspissate; solvate; react; dissolve, fade out, fade away; empty, discharge; fill, fill up; homogenize, homogenise; homogenize, homogenise; curdle, clabber, clot; clot, coagulate; sour, turn, ferment, work; integrate; precipitate; calcify; coke; carnify; chondrify; emulsify; denitrify; esterify; etherify; thrombose; open, open up; close, shut; sorb, take up; calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it; thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish; emancipate, liberate; get into, tangle with; liquefy; erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate
Hyponym change
Verb Group turn, grow; become, turn

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