S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
S: (v) awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse (cause to become awake or conscious) "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."
S: (v) convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something) "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"
S: (v) make, get (give certain properties to something) "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"
S: (v) demythologize, demythologise (remove the mythical element from (writings)) "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"
S: (v) bring, land (bring into a different state) "this may land you in jail"
S: (v) coarsen (make less subtle or refined) "coarsen one's ideals"
S: (v) deaden, blunt (make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation) "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
S: (v) edit, redact (prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting) "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"
S: (v) edit, cut, edit out (cut and assemble the components of) "edit film"; "cut recording tape"
S: (v) dry, dry out (remove the moisture from and make dry) "dry clothes"; "dry hair"
S: (v) lubricate (make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant) "lubricate the key"
S: (v) strengthen, beef up, fortify (make strong or stronger) "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries"
S: (v) develop, make grow (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development) "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple"
S: (v) soften (make soft or softer) "This liquid will soften your laundry"
S: (v) damage (inflict damage upon) "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
S: (v) ossify (cause to become hard and bony) "The disease ossified the tissue"
S: (v) stabilize, stabilise (make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium) "The drug stabilized her blood pressure"; "stabilize prices"
S: (v) untune (cause to be out of tune) "Don't untune that string!"
S: (v) adjust, set, correct (alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard) "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
S: (v) set (put into a certain state; cause to be in a certain state) "set the house afire"
S: (v) hydrogenate (combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen; add hydrogen to the molecule of (an unsaturated organic compound))
S: (v) oxygenize, oxygenise (change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part; or change (an element or ion) from a lower to a higher positive valence: remove one or more electrons from (an atom, ion, or molecule))
S: (v) crack (cause to become cracked) "heat and light cracked the back of the leather chair"
S: (v) dissolve, dismiss (declare void) "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"
S: (v) end, terminate (bring to an end or halt) "She ended their friendship when she found out that he had once been convicted of a crime"; "The attack on Poland terminated the relatively peaceful period after WW I"
S: (v) transpose (change key) "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?"
S: (v) convert, change over (change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy) "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt"
S: (v) transform (increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage))
S: (v) transform (change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species)
S: (v) transform (convert (one form of energy) to another) "transform energy to light"
S: (v) transform, transmute, transubstantiate (change or alter in form, appearance, or nature) "This experience transformed her completely"; "She transformed the clay into a beautiful sculpture"; "transubstantiate one element into another"
S: (v) translate, transform (change from one form or medium into another) "Braque translated collage into oil"
S: (v) reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify (bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one) "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
S: (v) convert (cause to adopt a new or different faith) "The missionaries converted the Indian population"
S: (v) depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify (make impersonal or present as an object) "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"
S: (v) demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss (make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties (of)) "demagnetize the iron shavings"; "they degaussed the ship"
S: (v) simplify (make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent) "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives"
S: (v) socialize, socialise (make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies) "Health care should be socialized!"
S: (v) fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set (make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc) "Get the children ready for school!"; "prepare for war"; "I was fixing to leave town after I paid the hotel bill"
S: (v) equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate (make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching) "let's equalize the duties among all employees in this office"; "The company matched the discount policy of its competitors"
S: (v) stiffen (make stiff or stiffer) "Stiffen the cream by adding gelatine"
S: (v) loosen, loose (make loose or looser) "loosen the tension on a rope"
S: (v) normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise (make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard) "normalize relations with China"; "normalize the temperature"; "normalize the spelling"
S: (v) morph (cause to change shape in a computer animation) "The computer programmer morphed the image"
S: (v) automatize, automatise, automate (make automatic or control or operate automatically) "automatize the production"; "automate the movement of the robot"
S: (v) glorify (bestow glory upon) "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"
S: (v) contaminate (make radioactive by adding radioactive material) "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
S: (v) devalue (lower the value or quality of) "The tear devalues the painting"
S: (v) insulate (protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material) "We had his bedroom insulated before winter came"
S: (v) calcify (convert into lime) "the salts calcified the rock"
S: (v) urbanize, urbanise (make more industrial or city-like) "The area was urbanized after many people moved in"
S: (v) urbanize, urbanise (impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon) "Birds are being urbanized by people in outdoor cafes feeding them"
S: (v) emulsify (cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion)
S: (v) nazify (cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character) "Hitler nazified Germany in the 1930's"; "The arts were nazified everywhere in Germany"
S: (v) enable (render capable or able for some task) "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain"
S: (v) tense (increase the tension on) "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring"
S: (v) steepen (make steeper) "The landslides have steepened the mountain sides"
S: (v) scramble (make unintelligible) "scramble the message so that nobody can understand it"
S: (v) unscramble (make intelligible) "Can you unscramble the message?"
S: (v) unsex (remove the qualities typical of one's sex) "She unsexed herself"
S: (v) vitrify (change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat)
S: (v) pall (cause to become flat) "pall the beer"
S: (v) saponify (convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali) "saponify oils and fats"
S: (v) extend, expand (expand the influence of) "The King extended his rule to the Eastern part of the continent"
S: (v) denature (make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes)
S: (v) denature (modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished)
S: (v) denature (add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb)
S: (v) sanitize, sanitise (make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features) "sanitize a document before releasing it to the press"; "sanitize history"; "sanitize the language in a book"
S: (v) verbify (make into a verb) "`mouse' has been verbified by computer users"
S: (v) shift (move from one setting or context to another) "shift the emphasis"; "shift one's attention"
S: (v) sputter (cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed) "The solar wind protons must sputter away the surface atoms of the dust"
S: (v) draw (bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition) "She was drawn to despair"; "The President refused to be drawn into delivering an ultimatum"; "The session was drawn to a close"
S: (v) make (change from one form into another) "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks"
S: (v) dope (add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties) "The resistors have been doped"
S: (v) prostrate (render helpless or defenseless) "They prostrated the enemy"
S: (v) excite (produce a magnetic field in) "excite the neurons"
S: (v) masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise (produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy) "the drugs masculinized the teenage girl"
S: (v) masculinize (give a masculine appearance or character to) "Fashion designers have masculinized women's looks in the 1990s"
S: (v) sexualize, sexualise (make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to) "The god was sexualized and married to another god"; "Some languages sexualize all nouns and do not have a neuter gender"
S: (v) schematize, schematise (give conventional form to) "some art forms schematise designs into geometrical patterns"
S: (v) patent (make open to sight or notice) "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"
S: (v) constitutionalize, constitutionalise (incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional) "A woman's right to an abortion was constitutionalized in the 1970's"
S: (v) sensitize, sensitise (make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion) "sensitize the photographic film"
S: (v) sensitize, sensitise (make sensitive to a drug or allergen) "Long-term exposure to this medicine may sensitize you to the allergen"
S: (v) nationalize, nationalise (make national in character or scope) "His heroic deeds were nationalized by the press"
S: (v) recommend (make attractive or acceptable) "Honesty recommends any person"
S: (v) sentimentalize, sentimentalise (make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities) "Too much poetry sentimentalizes the mind"; "These experiences have sentimentalized her"
S: (v) variegate (change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors)
S: (v) ventilate (furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape) "The architect did not think about ventilating the storage space"
S: (v) vivify (make more striking or animated) "his remarks always vivify an otherwise dull story"
S: (v) supple (make pliant and flexible) "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
S: (v) professionalize, professionalise (make professional or give a professional character to) "Philosophy has not always been professionalized and used to be a subject pursued only by amateurs"
S: (v) smut (make obscene) "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
S: (v) weaponize (make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon) "Will modern physicists weaponize String Theory?"
S: (v) eroticize, sex up (give erotic character to or make more interesting) "eroticize the ads"
S: (v) piggyback (bring into alignment with) "an amendment to piggyback the current law"
S: (v) port (modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform)
S: (v) lifehack (make one's day-to-day activities more efficient)
S: (v) cloud (make less clear) "the stroke clouded memories of her youth"
S: (v) confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate (make unclear, indistinct, or blurred) "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
S: (v) tone down, moderate, tame (make less strong or intense; soften) "Tone down that aggressive letter"; "The author finally tamed some of his potentially offensive statements"
S: (v) bring (cause to come into a particular state or condition) "Long hard years of on the job training had brought them to their competence"; "bring water to the boiling point"
S: (v) humanize, humanise (make more humane) "The mayor tried to humanize life in the big city"
S: (v) humble (cause to be unpretentious) "This experience will humble him"
S: (v) estrange, alienate, disaffect (arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness) "She alienated her friends when she became fanatically religious"
S: (v) right (put in or restore to an upright position) "They righted the sailboat that had capsized"
S: (v) desensitize, desensitise (cause not to be sensitive) "The war desensitized many soldiers"; "The photographic plate was desensitized"
S: (v) substitute, replace, interchange, exchange (put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items) "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk for fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
S: (v) capture (bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit) "This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons"; "The star captured a comet"
S: (v) lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring (bestow a quality on) "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
S: (v) restore, reinstate, reestablish (bring back into original existence, use, function, or position) "restore law and order"; "reestablish peace in the region"; "restore the emperor to the throne"
S: (v) relax, loosen (make less severe or strict) "The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught"
S: (v) unite, unify (bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation) "the Democratic Patry platform united several splinter groups"
S: (v) flocculate (cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate) "The chemist flocculated the suspended material"
S: (v) turn (cause to change or turn into something different;assume new characteristics) "The princess turned the frog into a prince by kissing him"; "The alchemists tried to turn lead into gold"
S: (v) cohere (cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole) "Religion can cohere social groups"
S: (adj) unfit (below the required standards for a purpose) "an unfit parent"; "unfit for human consumption"
S: (adj) unfit (not in good physical or mental condition; out of condition) "fat and very unfit"; "certified as unfit for army service"; "drunk and unfit for service"