change, 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"

• awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse — cause to become awake or conscious
• cause to sleep — make fall asleep
• affect — act physically on; have an effect upon
• refresh, freshen, refreshen — make fresh again
• inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise — introduce semen into (a female)
• indispose — cause to feel unwell
• cry — bring into a particular state by crying
• brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise — make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
• convert — change the nature, purpose, or function of something
• opalize, opalise — make opalescent
• arterialize, arterialise — change venous blood into arterial blood
• make, get — give certain properties to something
• counterchange, transpose, interchange — cause to change places, as of parts, for example
• vascularize, vascularise — make vascular
• decrepitate — to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; of salts
• suburbanize, suburbanise — make suburban in character
• revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn — change radically
• etiolate — bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
• barbarize, barbarise — make crude or savage in behavior or speech
• alkalinize, alkalinise — make alkaline, as of chemical substances
• mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise — make into a myth
• allegorize, allegorise — make into an allegory; of stories
• demythologize, demythologise — remove the mythical element (from writings, such as the Bible)
• bring, land — bring into a different state
• coarsen — make less subtle or refined
• affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch — have an effect upon
• alchemize, alchemise — alter by alchemy, as of chemical elements
• alcoholize, alcoholise — make alcoholic, as by fermenting
• shape, form — give a shape or or form to
• round off, round down, round out, round — express as a round number
• suspend — cause to be held in suspension in a fluid, of particles, in chemistry
• sober — cause to become sober
• reconstruct — cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
• increase — make bigger or more
• assimilate — make similar
• dissimilate — make dissimilar; cause to become less similar
• commute, convert, exchange — exchange a penalty for a less severe one
• vitalize, vitalise — give life to
• unclutter, clear — rid of obstructions
• activate — make active or more active
• activate — make (substances) radioactive
• activate, aerate — aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
• activate — make more adsorptive; of metals
• inactivate, deactivate — make inactive
• deaden, blunt — make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
• remodel, reconstruct, redo — do over, as of (part of) a house
• edit, redact — make editorial changes (in a text)
• edit, cut, edit out — edit
• tame, chasten, subdue — correct by punishment or discipline
• chasten, moderate, temper — restrain or temper
• better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate — to make better
• worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate — make worse
• wet — cause to become wet
• dry, dry out — remove the moisture from and make dry
• lubricate — make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant
• strengthen, beef up, fortify — make strong or stronger
• spike, lace, fortify — add alcohol beverages
• weaken — lessen the strength of
• blunt — make less sharp
• oxidize, oxidise, oxidate — add oxygen to or combine with oxygen; as in a chemical process
• unite, unify, merge — join or combine
• age — make older
• ripen, mature — cause to ripen or develop fully
• antique, antiquate — give an antique appearance to
• antiquate — make obsolete or old-fashioned
• develop, make grow — cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
• soften — make soft or softer
• damage — inflict damage upon
• ossify — cause to become hard and bony
• acerbate — make sour or bitter
• stabilize, stabilise — make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
• destabilize, destabilise — make unstable
• sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise — make sensitive or aware
• desensitize, desensitise — make insensitive
• habituate, accustom — make psychologically or physically used (to something)
• familiarize, familiarise — make familiar or acquainted with
• disorder, disarray — bring disorder to
• discolor — cause to lose or change color
• color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in — add color to
• stain — produce or leave stains
• hue — take on color or become colored
• uglify — make ugly
• set — put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state
• disqualify, unfit, indispose — make unfit or unsuitable
• domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame — overcome the wildness of (an animal); make docile and tractable
• widen — make wider
• dehydrogenate — remove hydrogen from
• hydrogenate — combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen, esp. to add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound)
• oxygenize, oxygenise — change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule)
• darken — make dark or darker
• brighten, lighten up, lighten — make lighter or brighter
• blur, blear — make dim or indistinct
• obscure, bedim, overcloud — make obscure or unclear
• obscure, blot out, obliterate, hide — make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
• cook — transform by heating
• slenderize, slenderise — make slender or appear to be slender
• crack — cause to become cracked
• end, terminate — bring to an end or halt
• demist — free from mist
• condense, concentrate, contract — compress or concentrate
• cool, chill, cool down — make cool or cooler
• heat, heat up — make hot or hotter
• warm — make warm or warmer
• boil — bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point, as of water and other liquids
• freeze — cause to freeze
• switch, change over, shift — make a shift in or exchange of; then we switched"
• transpose — change key, of musical compositions
• convert, change over — change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
• transform — physics: increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
• transform — biology: change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
• transform — physics: convert (one form of energy) to another
• transmute — alter in nature; of chemical elements in alchemy
• transform, transmute, transubstantiate — change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
• ash — convert into ashes
• translate, transform — change from one form or medium into another
• reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify — bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
• convert — cause to adopt a new or different faith
• invert, reverse — turn inside out or upside down
• invert — make an inversion (in a musical composition)
• customize, customise — make according to requirements
• personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise — make personal or more personal
• depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify — make impersonal or present as an object
• sharpen — raise the pitch of (musical notes)
• flatten, drop — lower the pitch of (musical notes)
• disintegrate — cause to undergo fission or lose particles, in physics
• magnetize, magnetise — make magnetic
• simplify — make simpler or easier or reduce in complxity or extent
• complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate — make more complex, intricate, or richer
• refine — make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
• complicate, perplex — make more complicated
• supercharge, pressurize, pressurise — increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
• centralize, centralise, concentrate — make central
• decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise — make less central
• socialize, socialise — make socialist, as of governments or institutions
• prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set — make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
• internationalize, internationalise — make international in character
• communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise — make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
• Europeanize, Europeanise — make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas
• Europeanize, Europeanise — denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations
• bestialize, bestialise — make brutal and depraved; give animal-like qualities to
• Americanize, Americanise — make American in character
• anglicize, anglicise — make English in appearance
• Frenchify — make French in appearance or character
• civilize, civilise — raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
• nationalize, nationalise — put under state control or ownership
• denationalize, denationalise — put under private control or ownership
• naturalize, naturalise — make into a citizen
• denaturalize, denaturalise — strip of the rights and duties of citizenship
• naturalize, naturalise — make more natural or lifelike
• denaturalize, denaturalise — make less natural or unnatural
• even, even out — become even or more even
• equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate — make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
• stiffen — make stiff or stiffer
• loosen, loose — make loose or looser
• tighten, fasten — make tight or tighter
• transitivize, transitivise — make transitive
• detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise — intransitivize
• thicken, inspissate — make thick or thicker
• full — make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
• diversify — make (more) diverse
• deaden — make vapid or deprive of spirit
• check, retard, delay — slow the growth or development of
• decrease, lessen, minify — make smaller
• liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise — make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating
• solvate — cause a solvation in (a substance)
• validate — make valid or confirm the validity of, as of a document
• invalidate, void, vitiate — take away the legal force of or render ineffective
• empty — make void or empty of contents
• fill, fill up, make full — make full, also in a metaphorical sense
• saturate — cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material, etc.) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
• clot, coagulate — cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
• louden — cause to become loud
• normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise — make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
• morph — cause to change shape in a computer animation
• neutralize, neutralise — make chemically neutral
• commercialize, commercialise, market — make commercial
• purify, purge, sanctify — make pure or free from sin or guilt
• mechanize, mechanise — make mechanical
• automatize, automatise, automate — make automatic or control or operate automatically
• automatize, automatise — turn into an automaton
• mechanize, mechanise — make monotonous; make automatic or routine
• harmonize, harmonise, chord — bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
• polarize, polarise — cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
• glorify — bestow glory upon
• contaminate — make radioactive by adding radioactive material
• devalue — lower the value or quality of
• insulate — protect from heat, cold, noise, etc. by surrounding with insulating material
• calcify — convert into lime
• urbanize, urbanise — make more industrial or city-like
• urbanize, urbanise — impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon
• emulsify — cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion
• demulsify — cause to demulsify
• decarboxylate — remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound)
• Nazify — cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character
• fertilize, fecundate, fertilise — make fertile or productive
• clarify — make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating
• mark — make or leave a mark on
• barb — provide with barbs, as of fences, for example
• nick — divide or reset the tail muscles, as of horses
• disable, disenable, incapacitate — make unable to perform a certain action
• enable — render capable or able for some task
• de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress — reduce the emphasis
• tender, tenderize, tenderise — make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
• sweeten — make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable
• iodinate — cause to combine with iodine
• ionate — add ions to
• archaize, archaise — give an archaic appearance of character to, as in poetry
• inform — give character or essence to
• officialize, officialise — make official
• occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise — make western in character
• orientalize, orientalise — make oriental in character
• acetylate, acetylize, acetylise — introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound)
• achromatize, achromatise — remove color from
• parallel, collimate — make or place parallel to something
• camp — give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
• classicize, classicise — make classic or classical
• conventionalize, conventionalise — make conventional or adapt to conventions
• decimalize, decimalise — change from fractions to decimals
• dizzy — make dizzy or giddy
• poison, envenom — add poison to
• exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify — make external or objective, or give reality to
• glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise — make glamorous and attractive
• introvert — turn inside
• laicize, laicise — reduce to lay status; of institutions and buildings
• politicize, politicise — give a political character to
• proof — activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
• romanticize, romanticise — make romantic in style
• rusticate — lend a rustic character to
• sauce — add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
• shallow, shoal — make shallow
• tense — increase the tension on
• steepen — make steeper
• scramble — make unintelligible
• unscramble — make intelligible
• unsex — remove the qualities typical of one's sex
• vitrify — change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
• pall — cause to become flat, of beer or wine
• saponify — chemistry: convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali; of oil or fat
• extend, expand — expand the influence of
• suspend, set aside — make inoperative or stop
• muddy — make turbid
• transform — subject to a mathematical transformation
• lift, raise, elevate — raise in rank or condition
• harshen — make harsh or harsher
• dinge — make dingy
• demonize, demonise — make into a demon
• devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise — turn into a devil or make devilish
• etherealize, etherialise — make ethereal
• immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise — render immaterial or incorporeal
• animize, animise, animate — give life-like qualities to
• clear — make clear, bright, light, or translucent
• dynamize, dynamise — make effective, as of a drug
• dynamize, dynamise — make more dynamic
• rarefy, sublimate, subtilize — make more subtle or refined
• volatilize, volatilise — make volatile; cause to pass off in a vapor
• uniformize, uniformise — make uniform
• symmetrize, symmetrise — make symmetric
• immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise — make famous for ever
• denature — make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes
• denature — modify (as a native protein) esp. by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished
• denature — add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb
• sanitize, sanitise — make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
• verbify — make into a verb
• shift — move from one setting or context to another
• sputter — cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
• draw — bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
• make — change from one form into another
• dope — add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties; in electronics
• prostrate — render helpless or defenseless
• excite — produce a magnetic field in
• excite, energize, energise — raise to a higher energy level
• shake — bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
• outmode — make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete
• spice, spice up, zest — make more interesting or flavorful, either in the literal or in a metaphorical sense
• shorten — make short or shorter
• think — bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
• make — cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
• deflate — produce deflation in
• inflate — cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
• reflate — economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation
• digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise — put into digital form, as for use in a computer
• gelatinize, gelatinise — convert into gelatinous form or jelly
• recombine — cause genetic recombination
• feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize — to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
• masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise — produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
• masculinize — give a masculine appearance or character to
• dissonate — make harsh and unpleasant-sounding
• sexualize, sexualise — make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to
• schematize, schematise — give conventional form to
• patent — make open to sight or notice
• constitutionalize, constitutionalise — incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional
• rationalize, rationalise — remove irrational qualities from, as in math
• plasticize, plasticise — make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
• rarefy — lessen the density or solidity (of a substance)
• paganize, paganise — make pagan in character
• incandesce — cause to become incandescent or glow
• deaminate, deaminize — remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound; to perform deamination
• angulate — make or become angular
• circularize — make circular
• sensitize, sensitise — make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
• sensitize, sensitise — make sensitive to a drug or allergen
• depolarize, depolarise — eliminate the polarization of
• intensify — photography: make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
• isomerize, isomerise — cause to change into an isomer
• legitimate — make (an illegitimate child) legitimate; declare the legitimacy of (someone)
• evaporate, vaporize, vaporise — cause to change into a vapor
• industrialize, industrialise — organize the production of into an industry
• opacify — make opaque
• opsonize — make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
• militarize, militarise — adopt for military use
• nationalize, nationalise — make national in character or scope
• recommend — make attractive or acceptable
• sentimentalize, sentimentalise — make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
• solemnize, solemnise — make solemn and grave
• territorialize, territorialise — place on a territorial basis
• transaminate — change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another
• transfigure, glorify, spiritualize — 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
• visualize, visualise — make visible
• variegate — change the appearance of, esp. by marking with different colors
• ventilate — furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape
• vivify — make more striking or animated
• vulgarise, vulgarize — debase and make vulgar
• supple — make pliant and flexible, as of leather and skins
• confuse, blur, obscure — make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
• confuse — make unclear or incomprehensible
• tone down, moderate, tame — make less strong or intense; soften
• obfuscate — make obscure or unclear
• synchronize, synchronise — make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action
• mince, soften, moderate — make less severe or harsh
• militarize, militarise — lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
• break down, crush — make ineffective
• fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up — make fat or plump
• touch, disturb — tamper with
• dull — make dull in appearance
• dull, blunt — make dull or blunt, as of sharp edges or knives' blades
• sharpen — make sharp or sharper
• coarsen — make or become coarse or coarser
• loosen — make less dense
• untie, undo, loosen — cause to become loose
• barb — provide with barbs
• string — provide with strings
• straighten, straighten out — make straight
• close, fill, fill up — fill or stop up
• bring — cause to come into a particular state or condition
• mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate — to bring or combine together or with something else
• charge — fill or load to capacity
• put — cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation
• clean, make clean — make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
• dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire — make soiled, filthy, or dirty
• lower, depress — cause to drop or sink
• deform — make formless
• form — give shape to
• break, break up — destroy the completeness of a set of related items
• alter — make an alteration to
• decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify — make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
• humanize, humanise — make more humane
• humble — cause to be unpretentious
• estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect — arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
• right — put in or restore to an upright position
• desensitize, desensitise — cause not to be sensitive
• deodorize, deodourise — eliminate the odor from
• develop — make visible by means of chemical solutions; of photographic film
• blur — to make less distinct or clear
• blind — make blind by putting the eyes out
• change intensity — increase or decrease in intensity
• change taste — alter the flavor of
• capture — bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
• lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring — of a quality, as in
• restore, reinstate, reestablish — bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
• liberalize, liberalise — make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules
• right, compensate, redress, correct — make reparations or amends for
• democratize, democratise — introduce democratic reforms; of nations
• neutralize — make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
• corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect — corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
• relax, loosen — make less severe or strict
• turn — cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics
• make possible — make accessible
• cohere — cause to form a united, orderly, and aethestically consistent whole

• change — undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature