CHANGE
Definition:
- [noun] an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"
Synonyms: alteration, modification
- [noun] a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event; "he attributed the change to their marriage"
- [noun] the action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"
- [noun] the result of alteration or modification; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains"
- [noun] the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due; "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change"
- [noun] a thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one"
- [noun] a different or fresh set of clothes; "she brought a change in her overnight bag"
- [noun] coins of small denomination regarded collectively; "he had a pocketful of change"
- [noun] money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency; "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver"
- [noun] a difference that is usually pleasant; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic"
Synonyms: variety
- [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"
- [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"
Synonyms: alter, modify
- [verb] make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
Synonyms: alter, vary
- [verb] lay aside, abandon, or leave for another; "switch to a different brand of beer"; "She switched psychiatrists"; "The car changed lanes"
Synonyms: switch, shift
- [verb] change clothes; put on different clothes; "Change before you go to the opera"
- [verb] exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares"
Synonyms: excommute, convert
- [verb] give to, and receive from, one another; "Would you change places with me?"; "We have been exchanging letters for a year"
Synonyms: exinter
- [verb] change from one vehicle or transportation line to another; "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast"
Synonyms: transfer
- [verb] become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
Synonyms: deepen
- [verb] remove or replace the coverings of; "Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens"
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Related Words:
- freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
- dress, get dressed
- grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
- regenerate
- gel
- brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
- convert
- mutate
- have, experience
- decrepitate
- suburbanize, suburbanise
- roll, roll up
- glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
- turn, grow
- barbarize, barbarise
- alkalinize, alkalinise
- change by reversal, turn, reverse
- change integrity
- change shape, change form, deform
- change state, turn
- adjust, conform, adapt
- rise, jump, climb up
- assimilate
- dissimilate
- dissimilate
- change magnitude
- modify
- deaden
- break
- decay, crumble, delapidate
- mold, mildew
- hydrate
- dry, dry out
- strengthen
- distill, distil
- deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
- crack
- oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
- oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
- grow
- mellow, melt, mellow out
- soften
- ionize, ionise
- stabilize, stabilise
- destabilize, destabilise
- lighten, lighten up
- discolor, discolour, colour, color
- discolor
- narrow, contract
- darken
- brighten, lighten
- dim
- crack, check, break
- transpire
- resume, take up
- change surface
- sublime, sublimate
- cool, cool off, cool down
- warm up
- warm, warm up
- transform, transmute, metamorphose
- convert
- dull
- complexify, ramify
- Americanize, Americanise
- modernize, modernise, develop
- stiffen
- tighten
- fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
- give way, yield
- harden, indurate
- harden, indurate
- suffuse
- hush
- normalize, normalise
- reorient
- purify
- digest
- regress
- foul
- decalcify
- industrialize, industrialise
- decarboxylate
- spot
- receive, get, find, obtain, incur
- acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
- assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
- prim
- capacitate
- caseate
- caseate
- clinker
- cure
- dawn
- salinate
- desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
- shallow, shoal
- sop
- steepen
- superannuate
- ulcerate
- vitrify
- vulcanize, vulcanise
- pall, dull
- die, pall, become flat
- saponify
- move, go, run
- come
- catch
- catch on
- develop, grow
- fly
- develop, acquire, evolve
- assibilate
- smoothen
- turn on
- drop
- break into
- deepen, change
- concretize, concretise
- decay
- commute, transpose
- introject
- shift
- swing
- fall
- fall
- reflate
- hydrolyze, hydrolyse
- fold, fold up
- gelatinize, gelatinise
- felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
- recombine
- feminize, feminise
- obsolesce
- plasticize, plasticise
- recede
- defervesce
- incandesce
- calcify
- drift
- play out
- conjugate
- isomerize, isomerise
- evaporate, vaporise
- indurate
- gradate
- keratinize, keratinise
- opacify
- mature
- rejuvenate
- sequester
- transaminate
- vesiculate
- undulate
- vascularize, vascularise
- crash
- professionalize, professionalise
- shift
- flip, flip out
- synthesize
- come round, come around
- promote
- separate, divide, part
- format, arrange
- fall for
- move up, rise
- change posture
- settle
- collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
- solarize, solarise
- occult
- pass
- leave, depart, pull up stakes
- liberalize, liberalise
- stratify
- democratize, democratise
- relax, loosen
- reticulate
- flocculate
- carbonate
- come in
- go out
- stagnate
- make
- ice up, frost over, ice over
- awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
- cause to sleep
- affect
- refresh, freshen, refreshen
- inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
- indispose
- cry
- etiolate
- 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
- 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
- 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
- anglicize, anglicise
- 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
- deaden
- 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
- mark
- barb
- nick
- disable, disenable, incapacitate
- enable
- de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress
- tender, tenderize, tenderise
- charge
- 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
- 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, erreminise, womanize
- masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise
- masculinize
- 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
- confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate
- confuse
- 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
- form
- 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
- 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
- flocculate
- turn
- make possible
- cohere
- alternate, jump
- crackle
- modulate
- avianize, avianise
- move
- adapt, accommodate
- let out, widen
- take in
- diversify, branch out, broaden
- diversify, radiate
- specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down
- honeycomb
- break
- shift
- break
- surf, channel-surf
- leap, jump
- diphthongize, diphthongise
- cut
- break
- rectify
- utilize
- capitalize, capitalise
- launder
- break
- sell
- cash, cash in
- ransom, redeem
- substitute, replace
- substitute, sub, stand in, fill in
- trade, swap, swop, switch
- barter
- trade, trade in
- avulsion
- mutation
- sublimation
- surprise
- birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
- separation, breakup, detachment
- vagary
- variation, fluctuation
- conversion
- death, decease
- decrease, lessening, drop-off
- destabilization
- increase
- easing, moderation, relief
- deformation
- transition
- transformation, transmutation, shift
- twinkle, scintillation, sparkling
- shimmer, play
- transmutation
- damage, harm, impairment
- development
- revolution
- mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation
- sex change
- loss of consciousness
- difference
- gradient
- entail
- about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change
- adulteration
- move, relocation
- filtration
- reduction, simplification
- decimalization, decimalisation
- metrification, metrication
- variation
- turning
- diversification, variegation
- flux
- switch, switching, shift
- substitution, exchange, commutation
- promotion
- demotion
- change of state
- alteration, modification, adjustment
- motion, movement, move
- movement
- motion, movement, move, motility
- change of direction, reorientation
- change of magnitude
- change of integrity
- conversion
- updating
- change of shape
- satisfaction
- nationalization, nationalisation
- communization, communisation
- secularization, secularisation
- rollover
- depolarization, depolarisation