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Verb

S: (v) iron out, straighten out, put right (settle or put right) "we need to iron out our disagreements"
S: (v) disentangle, unsnarl, straighten out (extricate from entanglement) "Can you disentangle the cord?"
S: (v) reform, straighten out, see the light (change for the better) "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"

verb group
direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (v) better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate (get better) "The weather improved toward evening"

S: (v) change state, turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action) "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"

direct troponym / full troponym

S: (v) wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken (stop sleeping) "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock"
S: (v) zonk out, pass out, black out (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)

S: (v) faint, conk, swoon, pass out (pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain)

S: (v) come to, revive, resuscitate (return to consciousness) "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"
S: (v) tense, tense up (become tense, nervous, or uneasy) "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room"
S: (v) relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down (become less tense, rest, or take one's ease) "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work"

S: (v) vege out, vegetate (engage in passive relaxation) "After a hard day's work, I vegetate in front of the television"
S: (v) sit back, take it easy (settle into a comfortable sitting position)

S: (v) reduce, melt off, slim, slenderize, thin, slim down (take off weight)

S: (v) sweat off (lose weight by sweating) "I sweated off 3 pounds in the sauna"

S: (v) gain, put on (increase (one's body weight)) "She gained 20 pounds when she stopped exercising"

S: (v) round, flesh out, fill out (become round, plump, or shapely) "The young woman is fleshing out"
S: (v) pack on (gain (weight)) "He packed on two pounds over the summer"

S: (v) dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel (provide with clothes or put clothes on) "Parents must feed and dress their child"

S: (v) prim, prim up, prim out (dress primly)
S: (v) cover, wrap up (clothe, as if for protection from the elements) "cover your head!"
S: (v) jacket (put a jacket on) "The men were jacketed"
S: (v) frock (put a frock on)
S: (v) shirt (put a shirt on)
S: (v) habit (put a habit on)
S: (v) vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)
S: (v) overdress, overclothe (dress too warmly) "You should not overclothe the child--she will be too hot"
S: (v) underdress (dress without sufficient warmth) "She was underdressed for the hiking trip and suffered hypothermia"
S: (v) corset (dress with a corset)
S: (v) shoe (furnish with shoes) "the children were well shoed"
S: (v) coat (cover or provide with a coat)
S: (v) costume, dress up (dress in a costume) "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins"
S: (v) vest, robe (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)
S: (v) gown (dress in a gown)

S: (v) cross-fertilize, cross-fertilise (undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile)
S: (v) conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception) "She cannot conceive"; "My daughter was conceived in Christmas Day"

S: (v) superfetate (conceive when a fetus is already present in the uterus)

S: (v) secularize, secularise (make secular and draw away from a religious orientation) "Ataturk secularized Turkey"
S: (v) citrate (cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid)
S: (v) equilibrate (bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium)
S: (v) fall (pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind) "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work"

S: (v) drop (fall or sink into a state of exhaustion or death) "shop til you drop"
S: (v) fall in love (begin to experience feelings of love towards) "She fell in love with her former student"

S: (v) become, go, get (enter or assume a certain state or condition) "He became annoyed when he heard the bad news"; "It must be getting more serious"; "her face went red with anger"; "She went into ecstasy"; "Get going!"

S: (v) sober up, sober (become sober after excessive alcohol consumption) "Keep him in bed until he sobers up"
S: (v) sober up, sober (become more realistic) "After thinking about the potential consequences of his plan, he sobered up"
S: (v) work (arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion) "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times"
S: (v) take effect (go into effect or become effective or operative) "The new law will take effect next month"
S: (v) run (change from one state to another) "run amok"; "run rogue"; "run riot"
S: (v) take (be seized or affected in a specified way) "take sick"; "be taken drunk"
S: (v) break (come into being) "light broke over the horizon"; "Voices broke in the air"
S: (v) settle (become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet) "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy"

S: (v) worsen, decline (grow worse) "Conditions in the slum worsened"

S: (v) inflame (become inflamed; get sore) "His throat inflamed"
S: (v) sicken, come down (get sick) "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital"

S: (v) wan (become pale and sickly)
S: (v) contract, take, get (be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness) "He got AIDS"; "She came down with pneumonia"; "She took a chill"

S: (v) catch (contract) "did you catch a cold?"

S: (v) catch cold (come down with a cold)

S: (v) canker (become infected with a canker)

S: (v) devolve, deteriorate, drop, degenerate (grow worse) "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"

S: (v) tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade (lose interest or become bored with something or somebody) "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food"

S: (v) poop out, peter out, run down, run out, conk out (use up all one's strength and energy and stop working) "At the end of the march, I pooped out"
S: (v) retire, withdraw (lose interest) "he retired from life when his wife died"

S: (v) chicken out, back off, pull out, back down, bow out (remove oneself from an obligation) "He bowed out when he heard how much work was involved"

S: (v) resile (pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.) "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"

S: (v) languish, fade (become feeble) "The prisoner has been languishing for years in the dungeon"
S: (v) waste, rot (become physically weaker) "Political prisoners are wasting away in many prisons all over the world"

S: (v) necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate (undergo necrosis) "the tissue around the wound necrosed"

S: (v) deprive, impoverish (take away)

S: (v) disestablish (deprive (an established church) of its status)

S: (v) fail (get worse) "Her health is declining"
S: (v) tumble (suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat)
S: (v) slip, drop off, drop away, fall away (get worse) "My grades are slipping"

S: (v) lapse, backslide (drop to a lower level, as in one's morals or standards)

S: (v) suffer (get worse) "His grades suffered"
S: (v) suffer, lose (be set at a disadvantage) "This author really suffers in translation"; "The painting loses something in this light"
S: (v) regress, retrograde, retrogress (get worse or fall back to a previous condition)

S: (v) fall back, drop off, fall behind, recede (retreat)

S: (v) turn down (take a downward direction) "The economy finally turned down after a long boom"

S: (v) better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate (get better) "The weather improved toward evening"

S: (v) recuperate, recover, convalesce (get over an illness or shock) "The patient is recuperating"

S: (v) perk up, perk, percolate, pick up, gain vigor (gain or regain energy) "I picked up after a nap"
S: (v) snap back (recover quickly) "After the surgery, the patient snapped back in a few days"

S: (v) heal (get healthy again) "The wound is healing slowly"

S: (v) scab (form a scab) "the wounds will eventually scab"
S: (v) skin over (grow new skin over an injury)
S: (v) granulate (form granulating tissue) "wounds and ulcers can granulate"

S: (v) reform, straighten out, see the light (change for the better) "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"
S: (v) surge (see one's performance improve) "He levelled the score and then surged ahead"
S: (v) turn around, pick up (improve significantly; go from bad to good) "Her performance in school picked up"
S: (v) get well, get over, bounce back (improve in health) "He got well fast"
S: (v) mend, heal (heal or recover) "My broken leg is mending"
S: (v) fructify (become productive or fruitful) "The seeds fructified"
S: (v) upgrade (get better travel conditions) "I upgraded to First Class when Coach Class was overbooked"

S: (v) disengage (become free) "in neutral, the gears disengage"

S: (v) unlock (become unlocked) "The door unlocked from the inside"
S: (v) declutch (disengage the clutch of a car)

S: (v) overgrow (become overgrown) "The patio overgrew with ivy"
S: (v) concentrate (make denser, stronger, or purer) "concentrate juice"
S: (v) break (crack; of the male voice in puberty) "his voice is breaking--he should no longer sing in the choir"
S: (v) acidify, acetify (turn acidic) "the solution acetified"
S: (v) alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify (turn basic and less acidic) "the solution alkalized"
S: (v) ionize, ionise (convert into ions)
S: (v) ossify (become bony) "The tissue ossified"
S: (v) catalyze, catalyse (change by catalysis or cause to catalyze)
S: (v) get worse, relapse (deteriorate in health) "he relapsed"
S: (v) fluctuate (be unstable) "The stock market fluctuates"
S: (v) explode, burst forth, break loose (be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise) "His anger exploded"
S: (v) die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life) "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

S: (v) abort (cease development, die, and be aborted) "an aborting fetus"
S: (v) suffocate, stifle, asphyxiate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen) "The child suffocated under the pillow"

S: (v) strangle (die from strangulation)

S: (v) buy it, pip out (be killed or die)
S: (v) drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating) "The child drowned in the lake"
S: (v) predecease (die before; die earlier than) "She predeceased her husband"
S: (v) starve, famish (die of food deprivation) "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
S: (v) fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt) "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead"
S: (v) succumb, yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

S: (v) be born (come into existence through birth) "She was born on a farm"

S: (v) hatch (emerge from the eggs) "young birds, fish, and reptiles hatch"
S: (v) fall (be born, used chiefly of lambs) "The lambs fell in the afternoon"
S: (v) come to life, come into being (be born or come into existence) "All these flowers come to life when the rains come"
S: (v) reincarnate, transmigrate (be born anew in another body after death) "Hindus believe that we transmigrate"

S: (v) cloud over (become overcast) "the sky clouded over"
S: (v) carbonize, carbonise (turn into carbon, as by burning) "carbonize coal"
S: (v) cool, chill, cool down (loose heat) "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm"
S: (v) heat, hot up, heat up (gain heat or get hot) "The room heated up quickly"

S: (v) overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot) "The car engines overheated"
S: (v) fry (be excessively hot) "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried"

S: (v) carbonize, carbonise, carburize, carburise (unite with carbon) "carburize metal"
S: (v) freeze (change to ice) "The water in the bowl froze"

S: (v) glaciate (become frozen and covered with glaciers)

S: (v) boil (come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor) "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius"

S: (v) boil over, overboil (overflow or cause to overflow while boiling) "The milk is boiling over"

S: (v) burn, combust (undergo combustion) "Maple wood burns well"

S: (v) burn down, burn up, go up (burn completely; be consumed or destroyed by fire) "The hut burned down"; "The mountain of paper went up in flames"

S: (v) incinerate (become reduced to ashes) "The paper incinerated quickly"

S: (v) smolder, smoulder (burn slowly and without a flame) "a smoldering fire"
S: (v) scorch, sear, singe (become superficially burned) "my eyebrows singed when I bent over the flames"
S: (v) deflagrate (burn with great heat and intense light) "the powder deflagrated"
S: (v) flame (be in flames or aflame) "The sky seemed to flame in the Hawaiian sunset"
S: (v) flare, flame up, blaze up, burn up (burn brightly) "Every star seemed to flare with new intensity"
S: (v) blaze (burn brightly and intensely) "The summer sun alone can cause a pine to blaze"

S: (v) emaciate (grow weak and thin or waste away physically) "She emaciated during the chemotherapy"
S: (v) Frenchify (become French in appearance or character) "This restaurant has Frenchified"
S: (v) thin (lose thickness; become thin or thinner)
S: (v) thicken, inspissate (become thick or thicker) "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate"
S: (v) solvate (undergo solvation or convert into a solvate)
S: (v) react (undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions) "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

S: (v) bromate, brominate (react with bromine)

S: (v) dissolve, fade out, fade away (become weaker) "The sound faded out"
S: (v) empty, discharge (become empty or void of its content) "The room emptied"

S: (v) flow away, flow off (flow off or away gradually) "The water flowed off from the pipe"

S: (v) fill, fill up (become full) "The pool slowly filled with water"; "The theater filled up slowly"

S: (v) water (fill with tears) "His eyes were watering"
S: (v) flood (become filled to overflowing) "Our basement flooded during the heavy rains"
S: (v) rack up (supply a rack with feed for (horses or other animals))

S: (v) homogenize, homogenise (become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing) "The two liquids homogenized in the blender"
S: (v) homogenize, homogenise (break up the fat globules of) "homogenized milk"
S: (v) curdle, clabber, clot (turn into curds) "curdled milk"
S: (v) clot, coagulate (change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state) "coagulated blood"

S: (v) curdle (turn from a liquid to a solid mass) "his blood curdled"

S: (v) sour, turn, ferment, work (go sour or spoil) "The milk has soured"; "The wine worked"; "The cream has turned--we have to throw it out"
S: (v) integrate (become one; become integrated) "The students at this school integrate immediately, despite their different backgrounds"

S: (v) unify, unite, merge (become one) "Germany unified officially in 1990"; "the cells merge"

S: (v) consolidate (unite into one) "The companies consolidated"
S: (v) consubstantiate (become united in substance) "thought and the object consubstantiate"
S: (v) syncretize, syncretise (unite (beliefs or conflicting principles))
S: (v) converge (come together so as to form a single product) "Social forces converged to bring the Fascists back to power"
S: (v) federate, federalize, federalise (enter into a league for a common purpose) "The republics federated to become the Soviet Union"
S: (v) coalesce (fuse or cause to grow together)

S: (v) clog, clot (coalesce or unite in a mass) "Blood clots"

S: (v) lysogenize (become integrated into the genome of (a bacterium))

S: (v) precipitate (separate as a fine suspension of solid particles)
S: (v) calcify (turn into lime; become calcified) "The rock calcified over the centuries"
S: (v) coke (become coke) "petroleum oils coke after distillation"
S: (v) carnify (become muscular or fleshy)
S: (v) chondrify (turn into cartilage) "The tissue chondrifies"
S: (v) emulsify (form into or become an emulsion) "The solution emulsified"
S: (v) denitrify (remove nitrogen from) "Denitrify the soil"
S: (v) esterify (change (a compound) into an ester)
S: (v) etherify (change into an ether) "etherify an alcohol"
S: (v) thrombose (become blocked by a thrombus) "the blood vessel thrombosed"
S: (v) open, open up (become open) "The door opened"

S: (v) unfasten (become undone or untied) "The shoelaces unfastened"
S: (v) fly open (come open suddenly) "the doors flew open in the strong gust"

S: (v) close, shut (become closed) "The windows closed with a loud bang"
S: (v) sorb, take up (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)

S: (v) absorb (become imbued) "The liquids, light, and gases absorb"

S: (v) reabsorb, resorb (undergo resorption)
S: (v) assimilate, imbibe (take (gas, light or heat) into a solution)

S: (v) adsorb (accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface)
S: (v) chemisorb (take up a substance by chemisorption)

S: (v) calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it (become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation) "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again."
S: (v) thrive, prosper, fly high, flourish (make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance) "The new student is thriving"
S: (v) emancipate, liberate (give equal rights to; of women and minorities)
S: (v) get into, tangle with (get involved in or with)
S: (v) liquefy (become liquid) "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew"
S: (v) erupt, ignite, catch fire, take fire, combust, conflagrate (start to burn or burst into flames) "Marsh gases ignited suddenly"; "The oily rags combusted spontaneously"

S: (v) blow out (erupt in an uncontrolled manner) "The oil well blew out"
S: (v) catch (start burning) "The fire caught"
S: (v) light up (start to burn with a bright flame) "The coal in the BBQ grill finally lit up"

verb group
direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (v) change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature) "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night"

phrasal verb
derivationally related form
sentence frame

derivationally related form
sentence frame

S: (v) straighten, straighten out (make straight)
S: (v) clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalize, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate (make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear) "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault"
S: (v) tidy, tidy up, clean up, neaten, straighten, straighten out, square away (put (things or places) in order) "Tidy up your room!"