Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
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) change, alter, vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence) "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
S: (v) alternate, jump (go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions)
S: (v) crackle (to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks) "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
S: (v) modulate (vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves))
S: (v) avianize, avianise (to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo)
S: (v) move (go or proceed from one point to another) "the debate moved from family values to the economy"
S: (v) step (move or proceed as if by steps into a new situation) "She stepped into a life of luxury"; "he won't step into his father's footsteps"
S: (v) scroll (move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen) "Scroll down to see the entire text"
S: (v) sink, pass, lapse (pass into a specified state or condition) "He sank into nirvana"
S: (v) adapt, accommodate (make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose) "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"
S: (v) adjust (make correspondent or conformable) "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"
S: (v) gear, pitch (set the level or character of) "She pitched her speech to the teenagers in the audience"
S: (v) popularize, popularise (make understandable to the general public) "Carl Sagan popularized cosmology in his books"
S: (v) fit (insert or adjust several objects or people) "Can you fit the toy into the box?"; "This man can't fit himself into our work environment"
S: (v) anglicise, anglicize (make English in appearance) "She anglicised her name after moving from Paris to London"
S: (v) shoehorn (fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited)
S: (v) tailor, orient (adjust to a specific need or market) "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings"
S: (v) domesticate, tame (make fit for cultivation, domestic life, and service to humans) "The horse was domesticated a long time ago"; "The wolf was tamed and evolved into the house dog"
W: (n) neuter [Related to: neuter] (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))
W: (n) spaying [Related to: spay] (neutering a female by removing the ovaries)
W: (n) castration [Related to: castrate] (surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)) "bilateral castration results in sterilization"
W: (n) neutering [Related to: castrate] (the sterilization of an animal) "they took him to the vet for neutering"