English > change state: 1 sense > verb 1, change| Meaning | Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s |
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| Synonym | turn |
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| Narrower | Frenchify | Become French in appearance or character |
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| acidify, acetify | Turn acidic |
| alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify | Turn basic and less acidic |
| be born | Come into existence through birth |
| become, go, get | Enter or assume a certain state or condition |
| better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate | Get better |
| boil | Come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor |
| break | crack |
| burn, combust | Undergo combustion |
| calcify | Turn into lime |
| calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it | Become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation |
| carbonize, carbonise | Turn into carbon, as by burning |
| carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise | Unite with carbon |
| carnify | Become muscular or fleshy |
| catalyze, catalyse | change by catalysis or cause to catalyze |
| chondrify | Turn into cartilage |
| citrate | Cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid |
| close, shut | Become closed |
| clot, coagulate | change from a liquid / liquid to a thickened or solid state |
| cloud over | Become overcast |
| coke | Become coke |
| come to, revive, resuscitate | Return to consciousness |
| conceive | Become pregnant |
| concentrate | Make denser, stronger, or purer |
| cool, chill, cool down | Loose heat |
| cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise | Undergo cross-fertilization |
| curdle, clabber, clot | Turn into curds |
| denitrify | Remove nitrogen from |
| die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it | Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| disengage | Become free |
| dissolve, fade out, fade away | Become weaker |
| dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel | Provide with clothes or put clothes on |
| emaciate | Grow weak and thin or waste away physically |
| emancipate, liberate | Give equal rights to |
| empty, discharge | Become empty or void of its content |
| emulsify | form into or become an emulsion |
| equilibrate | Bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium |
| erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate | start to burn or burst into flames |
| esterify | change (a compound) into an ester |
| etherify | change into an ether |
| explode, burst forth, break loose | Be unleashed |
| fall | Pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind |
| fill, fill up | Become full |
| fluctuate | Be unstable / unstable |
| freeze | change to ice |
| gain, put on | increase (one's body weight) |
| get into, tangle with | Get involved in or with |
| get worse, relapse | deteriorate in health |
| heat, hot up, heat up | gain heat or get hot |
| homogenize, homogenise | Become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing |
| homogenize, homogenise | Break up the fat globules of |
| integrate | Become one |
| ionize, ionise | convert into ions |
| liquefy | Become liquid |
| open, open up | Become open |
| ossify | Become bony |
| overgrow | Become overgrown |
| precipitate | separate as a fine suspension of solid particles |
| react | Undergo a chemical reaction |
| reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down | Take off weight |
| relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down | Become less tense, rest, or take one's ease |
| secularize, secularise | make secular and draw away from a religious orientation |
| solvate | Undergo solvation or convert into a solvate |
| sorb, take up | take up a liquid / liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption |
| sour, turn, ferment, work | Go sour / sour or spoil |
| tense, tense up | Become tense, nervous, or uneasy |
| thicken, inspissate | Become thick or thicker |
| thin | Lose thickness |
| thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish | Make steady progress |
| thrombose | Become blocked by a thrombus |
| wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken | stop sleeping |
| worsen, decline | Grow worse |
| zonk out, pass out, black out | Lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example |
| Broader | change | Undergo a change |
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| Similar to | become, turn | Undergo a change or development |
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| turn, grow | Pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute |
| Spanish | convertirse, girar, rotar, transformarse |
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| Catalan | convertir-se, girar, rotar, transformar-se |
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