S: (v) write (mark or trace on a surface) "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
S: (v) mark (make or leave a mark on) "the scouts marked the trail"; "ash marked the believers' foreheads"
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"