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Sounds | chey'njh |
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Rhymes | arrange, derange, estrange, and 10 more rhymes in eynjh at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another. |
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Examples | "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse" |
Synonyms | alteration, modification |
Narrower | avulsion; mutation; sublimation; surprise; birth, nativity, nascency, nascence; separation, breakup, detachment; vagary; variation, fluctuation; conversion; death, decease; decrease, lessening, drop-off; destabilization; increase; easing, moderation, relief; deformation; transition; transformation, transmutation, shift; twinkle, scintillation, sparkling; shimmer, play; transmutation; damage, harm, impairment; development; revolution; mutation, genetic mutation, chromosomal mutation; sex change; loss of consciousness |
Broader | happening, occurrence, natural event |
Verbs | change; change; change |
Meaning | A relational difference between states. Especially between states before and after some event. |
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Examples | "he attributed the change to their marriage" |
Narrower | difference; gradient |
Broader | relation |
Verbs | change; change |
Meaning | The action of changing something. |
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Examples | "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election" |
Narrower | entail; about-face, volte-face, reversal, policy change; adulteration; move, relocation; filtration; reduction, simplification; decimalization, decimalisation; metrification, metrication; variation; turning; diversification, variegation; flux; switch, switching, shift; substitution, exchange, commutation; promotion; demotion; change of state; alteration, modification, adjustment; motion, movement, move; movement; motion, movement, move, motility; change of direction, reorientation; change of magnitude; change of integrity; conversion; updating; change of shape; satisfaction; nationalization, nationalisation; communization, communisation; secularization, secularisation; rollover |
Broader | action |
Verbs | change; change |
Meaning | The result of alteration or modification. |
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Examples | "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains" |
Narrower | depolarization, depolarisation |
Broader | consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot |
Verbs | change; change; change |
Meaning | The balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due. |
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Examples | "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change" |
Broader | cash, hard cash, hard currency |
Meaning | A thing that is different. |
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Examples | "he inspected several changes before selecting one" |
Broader | thing |
Verbs | change; change; change |
Meaning | A different or fresh set of clothes. |
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Examples | "she brought a change in her overnight bag" |
Broader | clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear |
Verbs | change |
Meaning | Coins of small denomination regarded collectively. |
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Examples | "he had a pocketful of change" |
Broader | coin |
Meaning | Money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency. |
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Examples | "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver" |
Broader | cash, hard cash, hard currency |
Meaning | A difference that is usually pleasant. |
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Examples | "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic" |
Synonyms | variety |
Broader | difference |
Meaning | Undergo a change. Become different in essence. Losing one's or its original nature. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
Examples | "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
Caused by | change, alter, modify |
Narrower | freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up; dress, get dressed; grow, develop, produce, get, acquire; regenerate; gel; brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise; convert; mutate; have, experience; decrepitate; suburbanize, suburbanise; roll, roll up; glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over; turn, grow; barbarize, barbarise; alkalinize, alkalinise; change by reversal, turn, reverse; change integrity; change shape, change form, deform; change state, turn; adjust, conform, adapt; rise, jump, climb up; assimilate; dissimilate; dissimilate; change magnitude; modify; deaden; break; decay, crumble, delapidate; mold, mildew; hydrate; dry, dry out; strengthen; distill, distil; deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce; crack; oxidize, oxidise, oxidate; oxidise, oxidize, oxidate; grow; mellow, melt, mellow out; soften; ionize, ionise; stabilize, stabilise; destabilize, destabilise; lighten, lighten up; discolor, discolour, colour, color; discolor; narrow, contract; darken; brighten, lighten; dim; crack, check, break; transpire; resume, take up; change surface; sublime, sublimate; cool, cool off, cool down; warm up; warm, warm up; transform, transmute, metamorphose; convert; dull; complexify, ramify; Americanize, Americanise; modernize, modernise, develop; stiffen; tighten; fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down; give way, yield; harden, indurate; harden, indurate; suffuse; hush; normalize, normalise; reorient; purify; digest; regress; foul; decalcify; industrialize, industrialise; decarboxylate; spot; receive, get, find, obtain, incur; acetylate, acetylize, acetylise; assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take; prim; capacitate; caseate; caseate; clinker; cure; dawn; salinate; desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise; shallow, shoal; sop; steepen; superannuate; ulcerate; vitrify; vulcanize, vulcanise; pall, dull; die, pall, become flat; saponify; move, go, run; come; catch; catch on; develop, grow; fly; develop, acquire, evolve; assibilate; smoothen; turn on; drop; break into; deepen, change; concretize, concretise; decay; commute, transpose; introject; shift; swing; fall; fall; reflate; hydrolyze, hydrolyse; fold, fold up; gelatinize, gelatinise; felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat; recombine; feminize, feminise; obsolesce; plasticize, plasticise; recede; defervesce; incandesce; calcify; drift; play out; conjugate; isomerize, isomerise; evaporate, vaporise; indurate; gradate; keratinize, keratinise; opacify; mature; rejuvenate; sequester; transaminate; vesiculate; undulate; vascularize, vascularise; crash; professionalize, professionalise; shift; flip, flip out; synthesize; come round, come around; promote; separate, divide, part; format, arrange; fall for; move up, rise; change posture; settle; collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder; solarize, solarise; occult; pass; leave, depart, pull up stakes; liberalize, liberalise; stratify; democratize, democratise; relax, loosen; reticulate; flocculate; carbonate; come in; go out; stagnate; make; ice up, frost over, ice over |
Contrary | stay, remain, rest |
Nouns | change; change; change |
Meaning | Cause to change. Make different. Cause a transformation. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Model | They change their earnings this year |
Examples | "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" |
Synonyms | alter, modify |
Cause to | change |
Narrower | awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse; cause to sleep; affect; refresh, freshen, refreshen; inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise; indispose; cry; etiolate; brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise; convert; opalize, opalise; arterialize, arterialise; make, get; counterchange, transpose, interchange; vascularize, vascularise; decrepitate; suburbanize, suburbanise; revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn; etiolate; barbarize, barbarise; alkalinize, alkalinise; mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise; allegorize, allegorise; demythologize, demythologise; bring, land; coarsen; affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch; alchemize, alchemise; alcoholize, alcoholise; shape, form; round off, round down, round out, round; suspend; sober; reconstruct; increase; ease up, ease off, let up; assimilate; dissimilate; commute, convert, exchange; vitalize, vitalise; unclutter, clear; activate; activate; activate, aerate; activate; inactivate, deactivate; deaden, blunt; remodel, reconstruct, redo; edit, redact; edit, cut, edit out; tame, chasten, subdue; chasten, moderate, temper; better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate; worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate; wet; dry, dry out; lubricate; strengthen, beef up, fortify; spike, lace, fortify; weaken; blunt; oxidize, oxidise, oxidate; unite, unify, merge; age; ripen, mature; antique, antiquate; antiquate; develop, make grow; soften; damage; ossify; acerbate; stabilize, stabilise; destabilize, destabilise; sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise; desensitize, desensitise; habituate, accustom; disorder, disarray; discolor; color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in; stain; hue; uglify; untune; adjust, set, correct; set; disqualify, unfit, indispose; domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame; widen; dehydrogenate; hydrogenate; oxygenize, oxygenise; darken; brighten, lighten up, lighten; blur, blear; obscure, bedim, overcloud; obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide; cook; slenderize, slenderise; crack; dissolve, dismiss; end, terminate; demist; condense, concentrate, contract; cool, chill, cool down; heat, heat up; warm; boil; freeze; blister; switch, change over, shift; transpose; convert, change over; transform; transform; transform; transmute; transform, transmute, transubstantiate; ash; translate, transform; reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify; convert; Islamize, Islamise; invert, reverse; invert; customize, customise; personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise; depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify; sharpen; flatten, drop; disintegrate; magnetize, magnetise; demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss; simplify; complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate; refine; complicate, perplex; supercharge, pressurize, pressurise; centralize, centralise, concentrate; decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise; socialize, socialise; fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set; internationalize, internationalise; communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise; Europeanize, Europeanise; Europeanize, Europeanise; bestialize, bestialise; Americanize, Americanise; anglicize, anglicise; Frenchify; civilize, civilise; nationalize, nationalise; denationalize, denationalise; naturalize, naturalise; denaturalize, denaturalise; naturalize, naturalise; denaturalize, denaturalise; even, even out; equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate; stiffen; loosen, loose; tighten, fasten; transitivize, transitivise; detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise; thicken, inspissate; full; diversify; deaden; check, retard, delay; decrease, lessen, minify; liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise; solvate; dissolve; validate; invalidate, void, vitiate; empty; fill, fill up, make full; saturate; clot, coagulate; louden; normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise; morph; neutralize, neutralise; commercialize, commercialise, market; purify, purge, sanctify; mechanize, mechanise; automatize, automatise, automate; automatize, automatise; mechanize, mechanise; harmonize, harmonise, chord; polarize, polarise; glorify; contaminate; devalue; insulate; calcify; urbanize, urbanise; urbanize, urbanise; emulsify; demulsify; decarboxylate; Nazify; fertilize, fecundate, fertilise; clarify; mark; barb; nick; disable, disenable, incapacitate; enable; de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress; tender, tenderize, tenderise; charge; sweeten; iodinate; ionate; archaize, archaise; inform; officialize, officialise; occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise; orientalize, orientalise; acetylate, acetylize, acetylise; achromatize, achromatise; parallel, collimate; camp; classicize, classicise; conventionalize, conventionalise; decimalize, decimalise; dizzy; poison, envenom; exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify; glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise; introvert; laicize, laicise; politicize, politicise; proof; romanticize, romanticise; rusticate; sauce; shallow, shoal; tense; steepen; scramble; unscramble; unsex; vitrify; pall; saponify; extend, expand; suspend, set aside; muddy; transform; lift, raise, elevate; harshen; dinge; demonize, demonise; devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise; etherealize, etherialise; immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise; animize, animise, animate; clear; dynamize, dynamise; dynamize, dynamise; rarefy, sublimate, subtilize; volatilize, volatilise; uniformize, uniformise; symmetrize, symmetrise; immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise; denature; denature; denature; sanitize, sanitise; verbify; shift; sputter; draw; make; dope; prostrate; excite; excite, energize, energise; shake; outmode; spice, spice up; shorten; think; make; deflate; inflate; reflate; digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise; gelatinize, gelatinise; recombine; feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize; masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise; masculinize; dissonate; sexualize, sexualise; schematize, schematise; patent; constitutionalize, constitutionalise; rationalize, rationalise; plasticize, plasticise; rarefy; paganize, paganise; incandesce; deaminate, deaminize; angulate; circularize; sensitize, sensitise; sensitize, sensitise; depolarize, depolarise; intensify; isomerize, isomerise; legitimate; evaporate, vaporise; industrialize, industrialise; opacify; opsonize; militarize, militarise; nationalize, nationalise; recommend; sentimentalize, sentimentalise; solemnize, solemnise; territorialize, territorialise; transaminate; transfigure, glorify, spiritualize; unsanctify; vesiculate; visualize, visualise; variegate; ventilate; vivify; vulgarise, vulgarize; supple; professionalize, professionalise; smut; still; weaponize; confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate; confuse; tone down, moderate, tame; obfuscate; synchronize, synchronise; mince, soften, moderate; militarize, militarise; break down, crush; fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up; touch, disturb; dull; dull, blunt; sharpen; coarsen; loosen; untie, undo, loosen; barb; string; straighten, straighten out; bring; mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate; charge; put; clean, make clean; dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire; lower, depress; deform; form; break, break up; alter; decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify; humanize, humanise; humble; estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect; right; desensitize, desensitise; deodorize, deodorise, deodourise; develop; blur; blind; change intensity; change taste; capture; lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring; restore, reinstate, reestablish; liberalize, liberalise; right, compensate, redress, correct; democratize, democratise; neutralize; corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect; relax, loosen; flocculate; turn; make possible; cohere |
Nouns | change; change; change; changer; change; change |
Meaning | Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something |
Model | They change the countryside |
Examples | "her mood changes in accordance with the weather" |
Synonyms | alter, vary |
Narrower | alternate, jump; crackle; modulate; avianize, avianise; move; adapt, accommodate; let out, widen; take in; diversify, branch out, broaden; diversify, radiate; specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down; honeycomb; break |
Participle | plugged |
Nouns | change; change; change; change; change |
Meaning | Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "The car changed lanes" |
Synonyms | switch, shift |
Narrower | shift; break; surf, channel-surf; leap, jump; diphthongize, diphthongise; cut; break |
Similar to | change, exchange, commute, convert; change |
Meaning | Change clothes. Put on different clothes. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | They change |
Examples | "Change before you go to the opera" |
Broader | dress, get dressed |
Similar to | switch, shift, change |
Nouns | change |
Meaning | Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody |
Model | They change the money |
Examples | "He changed his name" |
Synonyms | exchange, commute, convert |
Narrower | rectify; utilize; capitalize, capitalise; launder; break |
Broader | replace |
Similar to | switch, shift, change |
Meaning | Give to, and receive from, one another. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP |
Examples | "Would you change places with me?" |
Synonyms | exchange, interchange |
Narrower | sell; cash, cash in; ransom, redeem; substitute, replace; substitute, sub, stand in, fill in; trade, swap, swop, switch; barter; trade, trade in |
Broader | transfer |
Meaning | Change from one vehicle or transportation line to another. |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Something is ----ing PP; Somebody ----s PP |
Model | They change |
Examples | "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast" |
Synonyms | transfer |
Broader | travel, go, move, locomote |
Meaning | Become deeper in tone. |
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Pattern | Something ----s |
Examples | "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old" |
Synonyms | deepen |
Broader | change |
Meaning | Remove or replace the coverings of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "Father had to learn how to change the baby"; "After each guest we changed the bed linens" |
Broader | replace |