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Synset

undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
<verb.change>   freq. cnt.: 54 freq. cnt.: 54

sample sentences

"She changed completely as she grew older"
"The weather changed last night"

verb frames

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
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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