undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
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sample sentences
"She changed completely as she grew older""The weather changed last night"
verb frames
Something ----sSomebody ----s
semantic pointers
hyponym
freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
dress, get dressed
develop, get, grow, acquire, produce
regenerate
shade
gel
brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
convert
creolize
mutate
have, experience
decrepitate
suburbanize, suburbanise
roll, roll up
glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
grow, turn
barbarize, barbarise
alkalinize, alkalinise
reverse, turn, change by reversal
change integrity
change shape, change form, deform
form
turn, change state
rise, jump, climb up
assimilate
dissimilate
dissimilate
change magnitude
modify
deaden
break
decay, crumble, dilapidate
mold, mildew
hydrate
dry, dry out
strengthen
distill, distil
reduce, deoxidize, deoxidise
crack
oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
grow
melt, mellow, mellow out
soften
ionize, ionise
stabilize, stabilise
destabilize, destabilise
lighten, lighten up
discolor, discolour, colour, color
discolor
narrow, contract
darken
dim
boil
crack, check, break
transpire
resume, take up
change surface
sublime, sublimate
cool off, cool, cool down
warm up
warm, warm up
transform, transmute, metamorphose
convert
dull
get used to
complexify, ramify
Americanize, Americanise
develop, modernize, modernise
stiffen
tighten
fail, break, break down, die, go bad, give way, give out, conk out, go
yield, give way
harden, indurate
harden, indurate
suffuse
hush
normalize, normalise
reorient
purify
digest
regress
foul
decalcify
industrialize, industrialise
decarboxylate
spot
get, receive, obtain, find, incur
acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
take, assume, take on, acquire, adopt
prim
capacitate
caseate
caseate
clinker
cure
dawn
salinate
desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
shallow, shoal
steepen
superannuate
ulcerate
vitrify
vulcanize, vulcanise
pall, dull
die, pall, become flat
saponify
go, move, run
come
catch
catch on
grow, develop
fly
develop, evolve, acquire
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
gum
repress
shear
damage
synthesize
come around, come round
promote
divide, separate, part
arrange, format
fall for
rise, move up, ascend
change posture
settle
collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
undergo
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