Vi fant 12 definisjoner av alter på engelsk.
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| alter - remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" | ||
| neuter, spay, castrate | ||
| desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix direct one's libidinous urges into another direction | ||
| defeminise, defeminize remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats) | ||
| alter - make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered" | ||
| sew, tailor-make, tailor fasten by sewing; do needlework | ||
| modify, alter, change make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" | ||
| alter - 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" | ||
| change, modify | ||
| wake up, waken, awaken, rouse, wake, arouse stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" | ||
| cause to sleep make fall asleep; "The soft music caused us to fall asleep" | ||
| affect act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate" | ||
| refreshen, freshen, refresh become or make oneself fresh again; "She freshened up after the tennis game" | ||
| fecundate, inseminate, fertilise, fertilize introduce semen into (a female) | ||
| indispose cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed" | ||
| cry shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" | ||
| etiolate make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin" | ||
| shade pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree; "the butterfly wings shade to yellow" | ||
| animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize represent in the form of an animal | ||
| convert change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid" | ||
| opalise, opalize replace or convert into opal; "opalized tree trunks" | ||
| arterialise, arterialize change venous blood into arterial blood | ||
| get, make cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition; "He got his squad on the ball"; "This let me in for a big surprise"; "He got a girl into trouble" | ||
| counterchange, interchange, transpose cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size" | ||
| vascularise, vascularize make vascular; "the yolk sac is gradually vascularized" | ||
| decrepitate to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts" | ||
| suburbanise, suburbanize make suburban in character; "highly suburbanized cities" | ||
| revolutionise, revolutionize, overturn change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe" | ||
| etiolate make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin" | ||
| barbarise, barbarize make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man" | ||
| alkalinise, alkalinize make (a substance) alkaline; "The oxide is alkalized" | ||
| mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize interpret as a myth or in terms of mythology; "mythicize the ancient stories" | ||
| allegorise, allegorize make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time" | ||
| demythologise, demythologize remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value" | ||
| land, bring reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" | ||
| coarsen make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals" | ||
| bear upon, impact, bear on, touch on, affect, touch press or wedge together; pack together | ||
| alchemise, alchemize alter (elements) by alchemy | ||
| alcoholise, alcoholize make alcoholic, as by fermenting; "alcoholize prunes" | ||
| shape, form give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character" | ||
| round down, round off, round out, round express as a round number; "round off the amount" | ||
| suspend cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles" | ||
| sober cause to become sober; "A sobering thought" | ||
| reconstruct cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically | ||
| increase make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted" | ||
| ease off, let up, ease up reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down" | ||
| assimilate become similar to one's environment; "Immigrants often want to assimilate quickly" | ||
| dissimilate become dissimilar or less similar; "These two related tribes of people gradually dissimilated over time" | ||
| commute, exchange, convert exchange a penalty for a less severe one | ||
| vitalise, vitalize make more lively or vigorous; "The treatment at the spa vitalized the old man" | ||
| unclutter, clear rid of obstructions; "Clear your desk" | ||
| activate make active or more active; "activate an old file" | ||
| activate make active or more active; "activate an old file" | ||
| aerate, activate make active or more active; "activate an old file" | ||
| activate make active or more active; "activate an old file" | ||
| deactivate, inactivate remove from active military status or reassign; "The men were deactivated after five years of service" | ||
| blunt, deaden make less sharp; "blunt the knives" | ||
| redo, remodel, reconstruct do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these rooms" | ||
| redact, edit 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 out, edit, cut 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" | ||
| chasten, tame, subdue restrain | ||
| chasten, temper, moderate restrain | ||
| ameliorate, improve, meliorate, amend, better make amendments to; "amend the document" | ||
| aggravate, exacerbate, worsen, exasperate exasperate or irritate | ||
| wet make one's bed or clothes wet by urinating; "This eight year old boy still wets his bed" | ||
| dry, dry out remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair" | ||
| lubricate make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant; "lubricate the key" | ||
| beef up, strengthen, fortify gain strength; "His body strengthened" | ||
| fortify, lace, spike add nutrients to; "fortified milk" | ||
| weaken become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" | ||
| blunt make less sharp; "blunt the knives" | ||
| oxidate, oxidise, oxidize enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide; "This metal oxidizes easily" | ||
| merge, unify, unite become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" | ||
| age begin to seem older; get older; "The death of his wife caused him to age fast" | ||
| ripen, mature grow ripe; "The plums ripen in July" | ||
| antiquate, antique make obsolete or old-fashioned | ||
| antiquate make obsolete or old-fashioned | ||
| make grow, develop expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form" | ||
| soften become soft or softer; "The bread will soften if you pour some liquid on it" | ||
| damage inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" | ||
| ossify become bony; "The tissue ossified" | ||
| acerbate make sour or bitter | ||
| stabilise, stabilize make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium; "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices" | ||
| destabilise, destabilize make unstable; "Terrorism destabilized the government" | ||
| sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" | ||
| desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him" | ||
| accustom, habituate make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" | ||
| disarray, disorder bring disorder to | ||
| discolor change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored" | ||
| color in, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, color, colour add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" | ||
| stain color for microscopic study; "The laboratory worker dyed the specimen" | ||
| hue take on color or become colored; "In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey" | ||
| uglify make ugly | ||
| untune cause to be out of tune; "Don't untune that string!" | ||
| adjust, correct, set adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions; "We must adjust to the bad economic situation" | ||
| set set to a certain position or cause to operate correctly; "set clocks or instruments" | ||
| unfit, disqualify, indispose make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you" | ||
| domesticise, domesticize, domesticate, reclaim, tame make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans; "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog" | ||
| widen become broader or wider or more extensive; "The road widened" | ||
| dehydrogenate remove hydrogen from | ||
| hydrogenate combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound) | ||
| oxygenise, oxygenize dehydrogenate with oxygen | ||
| darken make dark or darker; "darken a room" | ||
| brighten, lighten up, lighten make lighter or brighter; "The paint will brighten the room" | ||
| blear, blur become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" | ||
| bedim, overcloud, obscure become covered with clouds; "The sky clouded over" | ||
| blot out, veil, hide, obliterate, obscure to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" | ||
| cook transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes" | ||
| slenderise, slenderize make slender or appear to be slender; "slenderizing skirts" | ||
| crack break into simpler molecules by means of heat; "The petroleum cracked" | ||
| dismiss, dissolve bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" | ||
| end, terminate bring to an end or halt; "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I" | ||
| defog, demist free from mist; "demist the car windows" | ||
| condense, concentrate, contract undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" | ||
| chill, cool, cool down depress or discourage; "The news of the city's surrender chilled the soldiers" | ||
| heat up, heat make more intense; "Emotions were screwed up" | ||
| warm make warm or warmer; "The blanket will warm you" | ||
| boil immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool" | ||
| freeze suddenly behave coldly and formally; "She froze when she saw her ex-husband" | ||
| blister get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" | ||
| change over, switch, shift make a shift in or exchange of; "First Joe led; then we switched" | ||
| transpose change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?" | ||
| change over, convert change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid" | ||
| transform change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" | ||
| transform change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" | ||
| transform change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" | ||
| transmute alter the nature of (elements) | ||
| transubstantiate, transmute, transform change (the Eucharist bread and wine) into the body and blood of Christ | ||
| ash convert into ashes | ||
| transform, translate change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" | ||
| reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate make useful again; transform from a useless or uncultivated state; "The people reclaimed the marshes" | ||
| convert change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid" | ||
| islamise, islamize convert to Islam; "The Mughals Islamized much of Northern India in the 16th century" | ||
| invert, reverse, turn back reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb" | ||
| invert reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb" | ||
| customise, customize make according to requirements; "customize a car" | ||
| personalise, personalize, individualise, individualize make personal or more personal; "personalized service" | ||
| depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women" | ||
| sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened" | ||
| flatten, drop lower the pitch of (musical notes) | ||
| disintegrate break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity; "The material disintegrated"; "the group disintegrated after the leader died" | ||
| magnetise, magnetize make magnetic; "The strong magnet magnetized the iron shavings" | ||
| degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of); "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship" | ||
| simplify make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" | ||
| rarify, complicate, elaborate, refine make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" | ||
| refine make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of; "refine a method of analysis"; "refine the constant in the equation" | ||
| complicate, perplex make more complex, intricate, or richer; "refine a design or pattern" | ||
| supercharge, pressurise, pressurize increase the pressure on a gas or liquid | ||
| centralise, centralize, concentrate make central; "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food" | ||
| decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate make less central; "After the revolution, food distribution was decentralized" | ||
| socialise, socialize make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies; "Health care should be socialized!" | ||
| gear up, ready, prepare, fix, set up, set to prepare verbally, either for written or spoken delivery; "prepare a report"; "prepare a speech" | ||
| internationalise, internationalize make international in character; "We internationalized the committee" | ||
| bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize make into property owned by the state; "The new government communized all banks" | ||
| europeanise, europeanize make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas | ||
| europeanise, europeanize make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas | ||
| bestialise, bestialize make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to | ||
| americanise, americanize become American in character; "After a year in Iowa, he has totally Americanized" | ||
| frenchify become French in appearance or character; "This restaurant has Frenchified" | ||
| civilise, civilize raise from a barbaric to a civilized state; "The wild child found wandering in the forest was gradually civilized" | ||
| nationalise, nationalize put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" | ||
| denationalise, denationalize put under private control or ownership; "The steel industry was denationalized" | ||
| naturalise, naturalize make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" | ||
| denaturalise, denaturalize strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; "The former Nazi was denaturalized" | ||
| naturalise, naturalize make into a citizen; "The French family was naturalized last year" | ||
| denaturalise, denaturalize strip of the rights and duties of citizenship; "The former Nazi was denaturalized" | ||
| even, even out make even or more even | ||
| equalise, equalize, equal, equate, match compensate; make the score equal | ||
| stiffen make stiff or stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine" | ||
| loose, loosen become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" | ||
| fasten, tighten attach to; "They fastened various nicknames to each other" | ||
| transitivise, transitivize make transitive; "adding `out' to many verbs transitivizes them" | ||
| detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize intransitivize; "removing the object will intransitivize the verbs" | ||
| inspissate, thicken become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" | ||
| full make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering | ||
| diversify vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" | ||
| decelerate, slow down reduce the speed of; "He slowed down the car" | ||
| deaden convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil | ||
| accelerate, speed up, speed move faster; "The car accelerated" | ||
| delay, retard, check cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" | ||
| minify, decrease, lessen decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" | ||
| liquidise, liquidize, liquify, liquefy become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied" | ||
| solvate undergo solvation or convert into a solvate | ||
| dissolve declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" | ||
| validate make valid or confirm the validity of; "validate a ticket" | ||
| vitiate, invalidate, void take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract" | ||
| empty become empty or void of its content; "The room emptied" | ||
| make full, fill up, fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey" | ||
| saturate cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance | ||
| coagulate, clot change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state; "coagulated blood" | ||
| louden cause to become loud | ||
| renormalise, renormalize, normalise, normalize make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard; "normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling" | ||
| morph change shape as via computer animation; "In the video, Michael Jackson morphed into a panther" | ||
| neutralise, neutralize make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution" | ||
| commercialise, commercialize, market make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" | ||
| sanctify, purify, purge remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" | ||
| mechanise, mechanize make mechanical; "mechanize the procedure" | ||
| automate, automatise, automatize make automatic or control or operate automatically; "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot" | ||
| automatise, automatize make automatic or control or operate automatically; "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot" | ||
| mechanise, mechanize make mechanical; "mechanize the procedure" | ||
| chord, harmonise, harmonize play chords on (a string instrument) | ||
| polarise, polarize become polarized in a conflict or contrasting situation | ||
| glorify bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic" | ||
| contaminate make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" | ||
| devalue lower the value or quality of; "The tear devalues the painting" | ||
| insulate protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material; "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came" | ||
| calcify convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock" | ||
| urbanise, urbanize make more industrial or city-like; "The area was urbanized after many people moved in" | ||
| urbanise, urbanize make more industrial or city-like; "The area was urbanized after many people moved in" | ||
| emulsify form into or become an emulsion; "The solution emulsified" | ||
| demulsify break down into components | ||
| decarboxylate remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound) | ||
| nazify cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character; "Hitler nazified Germany in the 1930's"; "The arts were nazified everywhere in Germany" | ||
| fecundate, fertilise, fertilize provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to; "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants" | ||
| clarify make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer" | ||
| embrittle make brittle | ||
| mark make or leave a mark on; "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads" | ||
| nick mate successfully; of livestock | ||
| disenable, disable, incapacitate injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" | ||
| enable render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain" | ||
| de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress reduce the emphasis | ||
| tenderise, tenderize, tender make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer; "tenderize meat" | ||
| charge saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety" | ||
| bubble form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling" | ||
| sweeten make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable; "sweeten a deal" | ||
| iodinate cause to combine with iodine; "iodinate thyroxine" | ||
| ionate add ions to | ||
| archaise, archaize give an archaic appearance of character to; "archaized craftwork" | ||
| inform give character or essence to; "The principles that inform modern teaching" | ||
| officialise, officialize make official; "We officialized our relationship" | ||
| occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize make western in character; "The country was Westernized after it opened up" | ||
| orientalise, orientalize make oriental in character; "orientalize your garden" | ||
| acetylate, acetylise, acetylize introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound) | ||
| achromatise, achromatize remove color from; "achromatize the lenses" | ||
| collimate, parallel adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument) | ||
| camp give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | ||
| classicise, classicize make classic or classical | ||
| conventionalise, conventionalize make conventional or adapt to conventions; "conventionalized behavior" | ||
| decimalise, decimalize change to the decimal system; "The country decimalized the currency in 1975" | ||
| dizzy make dizzy or giddy; "a dizzying pace" | ||
| envenom, poison administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die" | ||
| exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts" | ||
| glamorise, glamourize, glamorize, glamourise make glamorous and attractive; "This new wallpaper really glamorizes the living room!" | ||
| introvert turn inside; "He introverted his feelings" | ||
| laicise, laicize reduce to lay status; "laicize the parochial schools" | ||
| politicise, politicize give a political character to; "politicize the discussion" | ||
| radicalize make more radical in social or political outlook; "Her work in the developing world radicalized her" | ||
| proof make resistant (to harm); "proof the materials against shrinking in the dryer" | ||
| romanticise, romanticize act in a romantic way | ||
| rusticate lend a rustic character to; "rusticate the house in the country" | ||
| sauce add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast" | ||
| shallow, shoal become shallow; "the lake shallowed over time" | ||
| tense cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" | ||
| steepen make steeper; "The landslides have steepened the mountain sides" | ||
| scramble make unintelligible; "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it" | ||
| unscramble make intelligible; "Can you unscramble the message?" | ||
| unsex remove the qualities typical of one's sex; "She unsexed herself" | ||
| vitrify undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like | ||
| pall lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" | ||
| saponify convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali; "saponify oils and fats" | ||
| expand, extend become larger in size or volume or quantity; "his business expanded rapidly" | ||
| set aside, suspend cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles" | ||
| muddy make turbid; "muddy the water" | ||
| transform change in outward structure or looks; "He transformed into a monster"; "The salesman metamorphosed into an ugly beetle" | ||
| elevate, lift, raise remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table" | ||
| harshen make harsh or harsher; "Winter harshened the look of the city" | ||
| dinge make dingy | ||
| demonise, demonize make into a demon; "Power had demonized him" | ||
| devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize turn into a devil or make devilish; "Man devilized by war" | ||
| etherealize, etherialise make ethereal | ||
| immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize render immaterial or incorporeal | ||
| animise, animize, animate give lifelike qualities to; "animated cartoons" | ||
| clear free (the throat) by making a rasping sound; "Clear the throat" | ||
| dynamise, dynamize make (a drug) effective; "dynamized medicine" | ||
| dynamise, dynamize make (a drug) effective; "dynamized medicine" | ||
| rarefy, subtilize, sublimate weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | ||
| volatilise, volatilize make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor | ||
| uniformise, uniformize make uniform; "the data have been uniformized" | ||
| symmetrise, symmetrize make symmetric; "symmetrized waves" | ||
| eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize cause to continue indefinitely | ||
| denature make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | ||
| denature make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | ||
| denature make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes | ||
| sanitise, sanitize make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features; "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"; "sanitize history"; "sanitize the language in a book" | ||
| verbify make into a verb; "'mouse' has been verbified by computer users" | ||
| shift move and exchange for another; "shift the date for our class reunion" | ||
| sputter cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed; "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust" | ||
| draw cause to localize at one point; "Draw blood and pus" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| dope give a narcotic to; "The athletes were dope by the coach before the race" | ||
| prostrate render helpless or defenseless; "They prostrated the enemy" | ||
| excite produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons" | ||
| energise, energize, excite produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons" | ||
| shake move with or as if with a tremor; "his hands shook" | ||
| outmode make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete; "Modern ways of cooking have outmoded the hearth" | ||
| spice, spice up make more interesting or flavorful; "Spice up the evening by inviting a belly dancer" | ||
| shorten become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten" | ||
| think bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam" | ||
| make act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies" | ||
| deflate become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air; "The balloons deflated" | ||
| inflate fill with gas or air; "inflate a balloons" | ||
| reflate become inflated again | ||
| digitalise, digitise, digitize, digitalize put into digital form, as for use in a computer; "he bought a device to digitize the data" | ||
| gelatinise, gelatinize convert into gelatinous form or jelly; "hot water will gelatinize starch" | ||
| recombine to combine or put together again | ||
| effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to; "This hairdo feminizes the man" | ||
| masculinise, virilise, virilize, masculinize produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy; "the drugs masculinized the teenage girl" | ||
| masculinize produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy; "the drugs masculinized the teenage girl" | ||
| disharmonize, dissonate cause to sound harsh and unpleasant | ||
| sexualise, sexualize make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to; "The god was sexualized and married to another god"; "Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender" | ||
| schematise, schematize give conventional form to; "some art forms schematise designs into geometrical patterns" | ||
| patent make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him" | ||
| constitutionalise, constitutionalize incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional; "A woman's right to an abortion was constitutionalized in the 1970's" | ||
| rationalise, rationalize remove irrational quantities from; "This function can be rationalized" | ||
| plasticise, plasticize make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer; "plasticized PVC" | ||
| rarefy weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) | ||
| paganise, paganize make pagan in character; "The Church paganized Christianity" | ||
| incandesce become incandescent or glow with heat; "an incandescing body" | ||
| deaminate, deaminize remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination | ||
| angulate make or become angular | ||
| circularize make circular | ||
| sensitise, sensitize make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" | ||
| sensitise, sensitize make sensitive or aware; "He was not sensitized to her emotional needs" | ||
| depolarise, depolarize eliminate the polarization of | ||
| intensify become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" | ||
| isomerise, isomerize change into an isomer | ||
| legitimate make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone); "They legitimized their natural child" | ||
| evaporate, vaporise lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue; "evaporate milk" | ||
| industrialise, industrialize develop industry; become industrial; "The nations of South East Asia will quickly industrialize and catch up with the West" | ||
| opacify become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind" | ||
| opsonize make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes | ||
| militarise, militarize adopt for military use; "militarize the Civil Service" | ||
| nationalise, nationalize put under state control or ownership; "Mitterand nationalized the banks" | ||
| recommend make attractive or acceptable; "Honesty recommends any person" | ||
| sentimentalise, sentimentalize act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression | ||
| solemnise, solemnize make solemn and grave; "This ceremony solemnized our hearts" | ||
| territorialise, territorialize extend by adding territory | ||
| transaminate undergo transfer from one compound to another; "amino groups can transaminate" | ||
| transfigure, spiritualize, glorify elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | ||
| unsanctify remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified | ||
| vesiculate cause to become vesicular or full of air cells; "vesiculate an organ" | ||
| visualise, visualize make visible; "With this machine, ultrasound can be visualized" | ||
| variegate change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors | ||
| ventilate furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape; "The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space" | ||
| vivify make more striking or animated; "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story" | ||
| vulgarise, vulgarize debase and make vulgar; "The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage" | ||
| supple make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use" | ||
| professionalise, professionalize make professional or give a professional character to; "Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs" | ||
| smut affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn | ||
| still make motionless | ||
| weaponize make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon; "Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?" | ||
| eroticize, sex up give erotic character to or make more interesting; "eroticize the ads" | ||
| piggyback bring into alignment with; "an amendment to piggyback the current law" | ||
| port modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform | ||
| lifehack make one's day-to-day activities more efficient | ||
| cloud make milky or dull; "The chemical clouded the liquid to which it was added" | ||
| obnubilate, confuse, obscure, blur mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary" | ||
| tone down, tame, moderate make less strong or intense; soften; "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements" | ||
| obfuscate make obscure or unclear | ||
| synchronise, synchronize make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's synchronize our efforts" | ||
| mince, moderate, soften make less severe or harsh; "He moderated his tone when the students burst out in tears" | ||
| militarise, militarize adopt for military use; "militarize the Civil Service" | ||
| break down, crush collapse due to fatigue, an illness, or a sudden attack | ||
| fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, plump out, flesh out, plump, fill out make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" | ||
| disturb, touch damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!" | ||
| dull make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel" | ||
| blunt, dull make less sharp; "blunt the knives" | ||
| sharpen become sharp or sharper; "The debate sharpened" | ||
| coarsen make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals" | ||
| loosen become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" | ||
| untie, undo, loosen undo the ties of; "They untied the prisoner" | ||
| barb provide with barbs; "barbed wire" | ||
| string add as if on a string; "string these ideas together"; "string up these songs and you'll have a musical" | ||
| straighten, straighten out make straight or straighter; "Straighten this post"; "straighten hair" | ||
| bring bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail" | ||
| amalgamate, commix, mingle, unify, mix get involved or mixed-up with; "He was about to mingle in an unpleasant affair" | ||
| charge saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety" | ||
| put attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" | ||
| make clean, clean remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" | ||
| begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" | ||
| depress, lower lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy" | ||
| deform alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy" | ||
| break up, break laugh unrestrainedly | ||
| alter remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" | ||
| grace, ornament, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish be an ornament to; "stars ornamented the Christmas tree" | ||
| humanise, humanize make more humane; "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city" | ||
| humble cause to be unpretentious; "This experience will humble him" | ||
| disaffect, alien, estrange, alienate transfer property or ownership; "The will aliened the property to the heirs" | ||
| right regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat righted again" | ||
| desensitise, desensitize make insensitive; "His military training desensitized him" | ||
| deodorise, deodorize, deodourise eliminate the odor from; "This stick will deodorize your armpits" | ||
| develop expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form" | ||
| blur become vague or indistinct; "The distinction between the two theories blurred" | ||
| blind make dim by comparison or conceal | ||
| change intensity increase or decrease in intensity | ||
| change taste alter the flavor of | ||
| substitute, interchange, replace, exchange 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" | ||
| capture capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping; "I caught a rabbit in the trap today" | ||
| bestow, impart, lend, contribute, add, bring give as a gift | ||
| reestablish, reinstate, restore restore to the previous state or rank | ||
| liberalise, liberalize make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules | ||
| redress, right, compensate, correct regain an upright or proper position; "The capsized boat righted again" | ||
| democratise, democratize introduce democratic reforms; of nations | ||
| neutralize make chemically neutral; "She neutralized the solution" | ||
| deprave, debauch, profane, demoralise, pervert, misdirect, vitiate, demoralize, debase, subvert, corrupt change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers" | ||
| loosen, relax become loose or looser or less tight; "The noose loosened"; "the rope relaxed" | ||
| unify, unite become one; "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge" | ||
| flocculate form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated" | ||
| turn pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry" | ||
| cohere have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere" | ||
| alter - 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" | ||
| change, vary | ||
| alternate, jump do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift" | ||
| crackle to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand" | ||
| modulate vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves) | ||
| avianise, avianize to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo | ||
| move go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy" | ||
| adapt, accommodate make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country" | ||
| let out, widen make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight" | ||
| take in make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight" | ||
| branch out, diversify, broaden vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" | ||
| diversify, radiate vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" | ||
| narrow down, narrow, specialise, specialize make or become more narrow or restricted; "The selection was narrowed"; "The road narrowed" | ||
| honeycomb make full of cavities, like a honeycomb | ||
| break weaken or destroy in spirit or body; "His resistance was broken"; "a man broken by the terrible experience of near-death" | ||
| alter - insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | ||
| interpolate, falsify | ||
| redact, edit 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" | ||
