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change > 20 senses
NOUN1change, alteration, modificationAn event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
2changeA relational difference between states
3changeThe action of changing something
4changeThe result of alteration or modification
5changeThe balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
6changeA thing that is different
7changeA different or fresh set of clothes
8changeCoins of small denomination regarded collectively
9changeMoney received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
10change, varietyA difference that is usually pleasant
VERB1changeUndergo a change
2change, alter, modifyCause to change
3change, alter, varyMake or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
4change, switch, shiftLay aside, abandon, or leave for another
5changeChange clothes
6change, exchange, commute, convertExchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category
7change, exchange, interchangeGive to, and receive from, one another
8change, transferChange from one vehicle or transportation line to another
9change, deepenBecome deeper in tone
10changeRemove or replace the coverings of
change > pronunciation
Soundschey'njh
Rhymesarrange, derange, estrange, and 10 more rhymes in eynjh at the HyperDic website...
change > noun 1, event
MeaningAn event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.
Examples"the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"
Synonymsalteration, modification
Narroweravulsion; 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
Broaderhappening, occurrence, natural event
Verbschange; change; change
change > noun 2, relation
MeaningA relational difference between states. Especially between states before and after some event.
Examples"he attributed the change to their marriage"
Narrowerdifference; gradient
Broaderrelation
Verbschange; change
change > noun 3, act
MeaningThe action of changing something.
Examples"the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"
Narrowerentail; 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
Broaderaction
Verbschange; change
change > noun 4, phenomenon
MeaningThe result of alteration or modification.
Examples"there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains"
Narrowerdepolarization, depolarisation
Broaderconsequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot
Verbschange; change; change
change > noun 5, possession
MeaningThe balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due.
Examples"I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change"
Broadercash, hard cash, hard currency
change > noun 6, artifact
MeaningA thing that is different.
Examples"he inspected several changes before selecting one"
Broaderthing
Verbschange; change; change
change > noun 7, artifact
MeaningA different or fresh set of clothes.
Examples"she brought a change in her overnight bag"
Broaderclothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear
Verbschange
change > noun 8, possession
MeaningCoins of small denomination regarded collectively.
Examples"he had a pocketful of change"
Broadercoin
change > noun 9, possession
MeaningMoney received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency.
Examples"he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver"
Broadercash, hard cash, hard currency
change > noun 10, attribute
MeaningA difference that is usually pleasant.
Examples"it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic"
Synonymsvariety
Broaderdifference
change > verb 1, change
MeaningUndergo a change. Become different in essence. Losing one's or its original nature.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s
Examples"She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"
Caused bychange, alter, modify
Narrowerfreshen, 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
Contrarystay, remain, rest
Nounschange; change; change
change > verb 2, change
MeaningCause to change. Make different. Cause a transformation.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
ModelThey change their earnings this year
Examples"The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
Synonymsalter, modify
Cause tochange
Narrowerawaken, 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
Nounschange; change; change; changer; change; change
change > verb 3, change
MeaningMake or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
ModelThey change the countryside
Examples"her mood changes in accordance with the weather"
Synonymsalter, vary
Narroweralternate, 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
Participleplugged
Nounschange; change; change; change; change
change > verb 4, change
MeaningLay aside, abandon, or leave for another.
PatternSomebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
Examples"The car changed lanes"
Synonymsswitch, shift
Narrowershift; break; surf, channel-surf; leap, jump; diphthongize, diphthongise; cut; break
Similar tochange, exchange, commute, convert; change
change > verb 5, change
MeaningChange clothes. Put on different clothes.
PatternSomebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s PP
ModelThey change
Examples"Change before you go to the opera"
Broaderdress, get dressed
Similar toswitch, shift, change
Nounschange
change > verb 6, change
MeaningExchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody
ModelThey change the money
Examples"He changed his name"
Synonymsexchange, commute, convert
Narrowerrectify; utilize; capitalize, capitalise; launder; break
Broaderreplace
Similar toswitch, shift, change
change > verb 7, possession
MeaningGive to, and receive from, one another.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP
Examples"Would you change places with me?"
Synonymsexchange, interchange
Narrowersell; cash, cash in; ransom, redeem; substitute, replace; substitute, sub, stand in, fill in; trade, swap, swop, switch; barter; trade, trade in
Broadertransfer
change > verb 8, motion
MeaningChange from one vehicle or transportation line to another.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP
ModelThey change
Examples"She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast"
Synonymstransfer
Broadertravel, go, move, locomote
change > verb 9, change
MeaningBecome deeper in tone.
PatternSomething ----s
Examples"His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"
Synonymsdeepen
Broaderchange
change > verb 10, change
MeaningRemove or replace the coverings of.
PatternSomebody ----s something
Examples"Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens"
Broaderreplace

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