change

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"

• freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up — become or make oneself fresh again
• dress, get dressed — put on clothes
• grow, develop, produce, get, acquire — come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
• regenerate — undergo regeneration
• gel — become a gel
• brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise — become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling
• convert — change in nature, purpose, or function; esp. undergo a chemical change
• mutate — undergo mutation
• have, experience — undergo
• decrepitate — undergo decrepitation
• suburbanize, suburbanise — take on suburban character
• glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over — become glassy; of eyes
• turn, grow — pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become;"The weather turned nasty"
• barbarize, barbarise — become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
• alkalinize, alkalinise — become alkaline; of chemical substances
• change by reversal, turn, reverse — change to the contrary
• change integrity — change in physical make-up
• change shape, change form, deform — assume a different shape or form
• change state, turn — undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
• adjust, conform, adapt — adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions
• rise, jump, climb up — rise in rank or status
• assimilate — become similar in sound; in phonetics
• dissimilate — become dissimilar or less similar
• dissimilate — become dissimilar by changing the sound qualities; of phonetics
• change magnitude — change in size or magnitude
• modify — make changes to
• deaden — become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
• break — be broken in
• mold, mildew — become moldy; spoil due to humidity
• hydrate — become hydrated and combine with water
• dry, dry out — become dry or drier
• distill, distil — undergo the process of distillation; of liquids
• deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce — remove oxygen from a compound, in chemistry
• crack — break into simpler molecules by means of heat
• oxidize, oxidise, oxidate — add oxygen to or combine with oxygen; as in a chemical process
• oxidise, oxidize, oxidate — enter into a combination with oxygen or become converted into an oxide
• grow — become attached by or as if by the process of growth
• mellow, melt, mellow out — become more relaxed, easygoing, or genial
• soften — become soft or softer
• ionize, ionise — become converted into ions
• stabilize, stabilise — become stable or more stable
• destabilize, destabilise — become unstable
• lighten, lighten up — become lighter
• discolor, discolour, colour, color — change color, often in an undesired manner
• discolor — lose color or turn colorless
• narrow, contract — make or become more narrow or restricted
• darken — become dark or darker
• brighten, lighten — become brighter
• dim — become dim or lusterless
• crack, check, break — become fractured; break or crack on the surface only
• transpire — come to light; become known
• resume, take up — return to a previous location or condition
• change surface — undergo or cause to undergo a change in the surface
• sublime, sublimate — vaporize and then condense right back again
• cool, cool off, cool down — lose intensity
• warm up — become more friendly or open
• warm, warm up — get warm or warmer
• transform, transmute, metamorphose — change in outward structure or looks
• convert — change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
• dull — become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness, as of a varnished surface
• complexify, ramify — have or develop complicating consequences
• Americanize, Americanise — become American in character
• modernize, modernise, develop — become technologically advanced
• stiffen — become stiff or stiffer
• tighten — become tight or tighter
• fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down — stop operating or functioning
• give way, yield — end resistance, esp. under pressure or force
• harden, indurate — become hard or harder
• harden, indurate — make hard or harder
• suffuse — to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
• hush — become quiet or still; fall silent
• normalize, normalise — become normal or return to its normal state
• change orientation, orient, reorient — set or arrange in a new or different determinate position
• purify — become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin
• regress — go back to a statistical means
• foul — become foul or dirty
• decalcify — lose calcium or calcium compounds
• industrialize, industrialise — develop industry; become industrial
• decarboxylate — lose a carboxyl group, as of a chemical compound
• spot — become spotted
• receive, get, find, obtain, incur — receive a specified treatment (abstract)
• acetylate, acetylize, acetylise — receive substitution of an acetyl group; of chemical compounds
• assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take — take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect
• prim — assume a prim appearance
• capacitate — cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
• caseate — become cheeselike, of necrotic tissue
• caseate — turn into cheese, of milk
• clinker — turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning
• dawn — become light
• salinate — add salt to
• desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise — remove salt from
• shallow, shoal — become shallow
• sop — become thoroughly soaked or saturated with liquid
• steepen — become steeper
• superannuate — become obsolete
• ulcerate — undergo ulceration
• vitrify — undergo vitrification; become glassy or glass-like
• vulcanize, vulcanise — undergo vulcanization
• pall, dull — become less interesting or attractive
• die, pall, become flat — lose sparkle or bouquet, as of wine or beer
• saponify — chemistry: become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali; of oil or fat
• move, go, run — progress by being changed
• come — reach a state, relation, or condition
• catch — be struck or affected by
• catch on — become popular
• develop, grow — grow emotionally or mature
• fly — change quickly from one emotional state to another
• develop, evolve — acquire or build up traits or characteristics
• assibilate — change into a sibilant
• smoothen — become smooth
• turn on — become hostile towards
• drop — change from one level to another
• break into — change pace
• concretize, concretise — become concrete, as of an idea in the mind
• decay — undergo decay or decomposition
• commute, transpose — transpose and remain equal in value; of variables or operators, in mathematics
• introject — incorporate (attitudes or ideas) into one's personality unconsciously
• shift — change in quality
• swing — change drastically"his mood swings"
• fall — be cast down
• fall — assume a disappointed or sad expression
• reflate — economics: experience reflation
• hydrolyze, hydrolyse — undergo hydrolysis; decompose by reacting with water
• fold, fold up — become folded or folded up
• gelatinize, gelatinise — become gelatinous or change into a jelly
• felt, felt up, mat up, mat — change texture so as to become matted and felt-like
• recombine — undergo genetic recombination
• feminize, feminise — assume (more) feminine characteristics, as of an animal or plant
• obsolesce — become obsolete, fall into disuse
• plasticize, plasticise — become plastic, as by having a plasticizer added
• recede — become faint or more distant
• defervesce — experience an abatement of a fever
• incandesce — become incandescent or glow with heat
• calcify — become inflexible and unchanging
• drift — be subject to fluctuation
• play out — become spent or exhausted
• conjugate — undergo conjugation, in biology
• isomerize, isomerise — change into an isomer
• evaporate, vaporize, vaporise — change into a vapor
• indurate — become fixed or established, as of a custom
• gradate — pass imperceptibly from one degree, shade, or tone into another
• keratinize, keratinise — become horny and impregnated with keratin
• opacify — become opaque
• mature — become due for repayment
• rejuvenate — develop youthful topographical features; of land
• sequester — Chemistry: undergo sequestration by forming a stable compound with an ion
• transaminate — undergo transfer from one compound to another; of an amino group
• vesiculate — become vesicular or full of air cells
• undulate — increase and decrease in volume or pitch, as if in waves
• vascularize — become vascular and have vessels that circulate fluids
• synthesize — combine and form a synthesis
• promote — board games: be changed for a superior chess or checker piece
• separate, divide, part — come apart
• format, arrange — set into a specific format; of printed matter
• fall for — fall in love with; become infatuated with
• move up, rise — be promoted, move to a better position
• change posture — undergo a change in bodily posture
• settle — become clear by the sinking of particles; of liquids
• collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder — break down, literally or metaphorically
• solarize, solarise — become overepxosed, of photographic film
• occult — become concealed or hidden from view or have its light extinguished
• pass — transfer to another; of rights or property
• leave, depart, pull up stakes — remove oneself from an association with or participation in
• liberalize, liberalise — become more liberal
• stratify — develop different social levels, classes, or castes
• democratize, democratise — become (more) democratic; of nations
• relax, loosen — become less severe or strict
• reticulate — form a net or a network
• flocculate — form into an aggregated flocculent mass, as of protoplasms
• carbonate — turn into a carbonate
• come in — come into fashion; become fashionable
• go out — go out of fashion; become unfashionable
• stagnate — cause to stagnate
• make — undergo fabrication or creation
• ice up, frost over, ice over — become covered with a layer of ice; of a surface such as a window