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altar:
place of worship
alter:
to change
alter
- verb: The verb alter has 5
senses (first 3 from tagged
texts)
1. (26) 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")
2. (2) change, alter, vary --
(make or 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")
3. (1) alter -- (make an
alteration to; "This dress
needs to be altered")
4. interpolate, alter, falsify
-- (insert words into texts,
often falsifying it thereby)
5. alter, neuter, spay,
castrate -- (remove the
ovaries of; "Is your cat
spayed?")
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5 senses of alter
Sense 1
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")
Sense 2
change, alter, vary -- (make
or 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")
Sense 3
alter -- (make an alteration
to; "This dress needs to be
altered")
=> 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")
Sense 4
interpolate, alter, falsify --
(insert words into texts,
often falsifying it thereby)
=> 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")
Sense 5
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
-- (remove the ovaries of; "Is
your cat spayed?")
=> sterilize, sterilise, desex,
unsex, desexualize,
desexualise, fix -- (make
infertile; "in some countries,
people with genetically
transmissible disabilites are
sterilized")
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Coordinate Terms: 3 of 5
senses of alter
Sense 3
alter -- (make an alteration
to; "This dress needs to be
altered")
-> 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")
=> 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.")
=> cause to sleep -- (make
fall asleep; "The soft music
caused us to fall asleep")
=> affect -- (act physically
on; have an effect upon)
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
-- (make fresh again)
=> inseminate, fecundate,
fertilize, fertilise --
(introduce semen into (a
female))
=> indispose -- (cause to feel
unwell; "She was indisposed")
=> cry -- (bring into a
particular state by crying;
"The little boy cried himself
to sleep")
=> etiolate -- (make pale or
sickly; "alcohol etiolates
your skin")
=> brutalize, brutalise,
animalize, animalise -- (make
brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman;
"Life in the camps had
brutalized him")
=> convert -- (change the
nature, purpose, or function
of something; "convert lead
into gold"; "convert hotels
into jails"; "convert slaves
to laborers")
=> opalize, opalise -- (make
opalescent)
=> arterialize, arterialise --
(change venous blood into
arterial blood)
=> 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")
=> counterchange, transpose,
interchange -- (cause to
change places; "interchange
this screw for one of a
smaller size")
=> vascularize, vascularise --
(make vascular; "the yolk sac
is gradually vascularized")
=> decrepitate -- (to roast or
calcine so as to cause to
crackle or until crackling
stops; "decrepitate salts")
=> suburbanize, suburbanise --
(make suburban in character;
"highly suburbanized cities")
=> revolutionize,
revolutionise, overturn --
(change radically; "E-mail
revolutionized communication
in academe")
=> etiolate -- (bleach and
alter the natural development
of (a green plant) by
excluding sunlight)
=> barbarize, barbarise --
(make crude or savage in
behavior or speech; "his years
in prison have barbarized the
young man")
=> alkalinize, alkalinise --
(make (a substance) alkaline;
"The oxide is alkalized")
=> mythologize, mythologise,
mythicize, mythicise -- (make
into a myth; "The Europeans
have mythicized Rte. 66")
=> allegorize, allegorise --
(make into an allegory; "The
story was allegorized over
time")
=> demythologize,
demythologise -- (remove the
mythical element from
(writings); "the Bible should
be demythologized and examined
for its historical value")
=> bring, land -- (bring into
a different state; "this may
land you in jail")
=> coarsen -- (make less
subtle or refined; "coarsen
one's ideals")
=> affect, impact, bear upon,
bear on, touch on, touch --
(have an effect upon; "Will
the new rules affect me?")
=> alchemize, alchemise --
(alter (elements) by alchemy)
=> alcoholize, alcoholise --
(make alcoholic, as by
fermenting; "alcoholize
prunes")
=> shape, form -- (give shape
or form to; "shape the dough";
"form the young child's
character")
=> round off, round down,
round out, round -- (express
as a round number; "round off
the amount")
=> suspend -- (cause to be
held in suspension in a fluid;
"suspend the particles")
=> sober -- (cause to become
sober; "A sobering thought")
=> reconstruct -- (cause
somebody to adapt or reform
socially or politically)
=> increase -- (make bigger or
more; "The boss finally
increased her salary"; "The
university increased the
number of students it
admitted")
=> ease up, ease off, let up
-- (reduce pressure or
intensity; "he eased off the
gas pedal and the car slowed
down")
=> assimilate -- (make
similar; "This country
assimilates immigrants very
quickly")
=> dissimilate -- (make
dissimilar; cause to become
less similar)
=> commute, convert, exchange
-- (exchange a penalty for a
less severe one)
=> vitalize, vitalise -- (give
life to; "The eggs are
vitalized")
=> unclutter, clear -- (rid of
obstructions; "Clear your
desk")
=> activate -- (make active or
more active; "activate an old
file")
=> activate -- (make
(substances) radioactive)
=> activate, aerate -- (aerate
(sewage) so as to favor the
growth of organisms that
decompose organic matter)
=> activate -- (make more
adsorptive; "activate a
metal")
=> inactivate, deactivate --
(make inactive; "they
deactivated the file")
=> deaden, blunt -- (make less
lively, intense, or vigorous;
impair in vigor, force,
activity, or sensation;
"Terror blunted her feelings";
"deaden a sound")
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
-- (do over, as of (part of) a
house; "We are remodeling
these rooms")
=> 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")
=> edit, cut, edit out -- (cut
and assemble the components
of; "edit film"; "cut
recording tape")
=> tame, chasten, subdue --
(correct by punishment or
discipline)
=> chasten, moderate, temper
-- (restrain or temper)
=> better, improve, amend,
ameliorate, meliorate -- (to
make better; "The editor
improved the manuscript with
his changes")
=> worsen, aggravate,
exacerbate, exasperate --
(make worse; "This drug
aggravates the pain")
=> wet -- (cause to become
wet; "Wet your face")
=> dry, dry out -- (remove the
moisture from and make dry;
"dry clothes"; "dry hair")
=> lubricate -- (make slippery
or smooth through the
application of a lubricant;
"lubricate the key")
=> strengthen, beef up,
fortify -- (make strong or
stronger; "This exercise will
strengthen your upper body";
"strengthen the relations
between the two countries")
=> spike, lace, fortify --
(add alcohol to (beverages);
"the punch is spiked!")
=> weaken -- (lessen the
strength of; "The fever
weakened his body")
=> blunt -- (make less sharp;
"blunt the knives")
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
-- (add oxygen to or combine
with oxygen)
=> unite, unify, merge --
(join or combine; "We merged
our resources")
=> age -- (make older; "The
death of his child aged him
tremendously")
=> ripen, mature -- (cause to
ripen or develop fully; "The
sun ripens the fruit"; "Age
matures a good wine")
=> antique, antiquate -- (give
an antique appearance to;
"antique furniture")
=> antiquate -- (make obsolete
or old-fashioned)
=> 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")
=> soften -- (make soft or
softer; "This liquid will
soften your laundry")
=> damage -- (inflict damage
upon; "The snow damaged the
roof"; "She damaged the car
when she hit the tree")
=> ossify -- (cause to become
hard and bony; "The disease
ossified the tissue")
=> acerbate -- (make sour or
bitter)
=> stabilize, stabilise --
(make stable and keep from
fluctuating or put into an
equilibrium; "The drug
stabilized her blood
pressure"; "stabilize prices")
=> destabilize, destabilise --
(make unstable; "Terrorism
destabilized the government")
=> sensitize, sensitise,
sensify, sensibilize,
sensibilise -- (make sensitive
or aware; "He was not
sensitized to her emotional
needs")
=> desensitize, desensitise --
(make insensitive; "His
military training desensitized
him")
=> habituate, accustom --
(make psychologically or
physically used (to
something); "She became
habituated to the background
music")
=> disorder, disarray --
(bring disorder to)
=> discolor -- (cause to lose
or change color; "The
detergent discolored my
shirts")
=> color, colorize, colorise,
colourise, colourize, colour,
color in, colour in -- (add
color to; "The child colored
the drawings"; "Fall colored
the trees"; "colorize black
and white film")
=> stain -- (produce or leave
stains; "Red wine stains the
table cloth")
=> hue -- (take on color or
become colored; "In highlights
it hued to a dull
silver-grey")
=> uglify -- (make ugly)
=> untune -- (cause to be out
of tune; "Don't untune that
string!")
=> 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")
=> set -- (put into a certain
state; cause to be in a
certain state; "set the house
afire")
=> disqualify, unfit,
indispose -- (make unfit or
unsuitable; "Your income
disqualifies you")
=> domesticate, domesticize,
domesticise, reclaim, tame --
(overcome the wildness of;
make docile and tractable; "He
tames lions for the circus";
"reclaim falcons")
=> widen -- (make wider;
"widen the road")
=> dehydrogenate -- (remove
hydrogen from)
=> hydrogenate -- (combine or
treat with or expose to
hydrogen; add hydrogen to the
molecule of (an unsaturated
organic compound))
=> 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))
=> darken -- (make dark or
darker; "darken a room")
=> brighten, lighten up,
lighten -- (make lighter or
brighter; "The paint will
brighten the room")
=> blur, blear -- (make dim or
indistinct; "The drug blurs my
vision")
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
-- (make obscure or unclear;
"The distinction was
obscured")
=> obscure, blot out,
obliterate, veil, hide --
(make undecipherable or
imperceptible by obscuring or
concealing; "a hidden
message"; "a veiled threat")
=> cook -- (transform by
heating; "The apothecary
cooked the medicinal mixture
in a big iron kettle")
=> slenderize, slenderise --
(make slender or appear to be
slender; "slenderizing
skirts")
=> crack -- (cause to become
cracked; "heat and light
cracked the back of the
leather chair")
=> dissolve, dismiss --
(declare void; "The President
dissolved the parliament and
called for new elections")
=> 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")
=> demist, defog -- (free from
mist; "demist the car
windows")
=> condense, concentrate,
contract -- (compress or
concentrate; "Congress
condensed the three-year plan
into a six-month plan")
=> cool, chill, cool down --
(make cool or cooler; "Chill
the food")
=> heat, heat up -- (make hot
or hotter; "the sun heats the
oceans"; "heat the water on
the stove")
=> warm -- (make warm or
warmer; "The blanket will warm
you")
=> boil -- (bring to, or
maintain at, the boiling
point; "boil this liquid until
it evaporates")
=> freeze -- (cause to freeze;
"Freeze the leftover food")
=> blister -- (cause blisters
to from on; "the tight shoes
and perspiration blistered her
feet")
=> switch, change over, shift
-- (make a shift in or
exchange of; "First Joe led;
then we switched")
=> transpose -- (change key;
"Can you transpose this fugue
into G major?")
=> convert, change over --
(change from one system to
another or to a new plan or
policy; "We converted from 220
to 110 Volt")
=> transform -- (increase or
decrease (an alternating
current or voltage))
=> 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)
=> transform -- (convert (one
form of energy) to another;
"transform energy to light")
=> transmute -- (alter the
nature of (elements))
=> 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")
=> ash -- (convert into ashes)
=> translate, transform --
(change from one form or
medium into another; "Braque
translated collage into oil")
=> 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")
=> convert -- (cause to adopt
a new or different faith; "The
missionaries converted the
Indian population")
=> Islamize, Islamise --
(cause to conform to Islamic
law; "Islamize the dietary
laws")
=> turn back, invert, reverse
-- (turn inside out or upside
down)
=> invert -- (make an
inversion (in a musical
composition); "here the theme
is inverted")
=> customize, customise --
(make according to
requirements; "customize a
car")
=> personalize, personalise,
individualize, individualise
-- (make personal or more
personal; "personalized
service")
=> depersonalize,
depersonalise, objectify --
(make impersonal or present as
an object; "Will computers
depersonalize human
interactions?"; "Pornography
objectifies women")
=> sharpen -- (raise the pitch
of (musical notes))
=> flatten, drop -- (lower the
pitch of (musical notes))
=> disintegrate -- (cause to
undergo fission or lose
particles)
=> magnetize, magnetise --
(make magnetic; "The strong
magnet magnetized the iron
shavings")
=> demagnetize, demagnetise,
degauss -- (make nonmagnetic;
take away the magnetic
properties (of); "demagnetize
the iron shavings"; "they
degaussed the ship")
=> simplify -- (make simpler
or easier or reduce in
complexity or extent; "We had
to simplify the instructions";
"this move will simplify our
lives")
=> complicate, refine, rarify,
elaborate -- (make more
complex, intricate, or richer;
"refine a design or pattern")
=> refine -- (make more
precise or increase the
discriminatory powers of;
"refine a method of analysis";
"refine the constant in the
equation")
=> complicate, perplex --
(make more complicated; "There
was a new development that
complicated the matter")
=> supercharge, pressurize,
pressurise -- (increase the
pressure on a gas or liquid)
=> centralize, centralise,
concentrate -- (make central;
"The Russian government
centralized the distribution
of food")
=> decentralize,
deconcentrate, decentralise --
(make less central; "After the
revolution, food distribution
was decentralized")
=> socialize, socialise --
(make conform to socialist
ideas and philosophies;
"Health care should be
socialized!")
=> 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")
=> internationalize,
internationalise -- (make
international in character;
"We internationalized the
committee")
=> communize, communise,
bolshevize, bolshevise --
(make Communist or bring in
accord with Communist
principles; "communize the
government")
=> Europeanize, Europeanise --
(make (continental) European
in customs, character, or
ideas)
=> Europeanize, Europeanise --
(denationalize and subject (a
territory) to the supervision
of an agency of a European
community of nations)
=> bestialize, bestialise --
(make brutal and depraved;
give animal-like qualities to)
=> Americanize, Americanise --
(make American in character;
"The year in the US has
completely Americanized him")
=> Frenchify -- (make French
in appearance or character;
"let's Frenchify the
restaurant and charge more
money")
=> civilize, civilise --
(raise from a barbaric to a
civilized state; "The wild
child found wandering in the
forest was gradually
civilized")
=> nationalize, nationalise --
(put under state control or
ownership; "Mitterand
nationalized the banks")
=> denationalize,
denationalise -- (put under
private control or ownership;
"The steel industry was
denationalized")
=> naturalize, naturalise --
(make into a citizen; "The
French family was naturalized
last year")
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
-- (strip of the rights and
duties of citizenship; "The
former Nazi was
denaturalized")
=> naturalize, naturalise --
(make more natural or
lifelike)
=> denaturalize, denaturalise
-- (make less natural or
unnatural)
=> even, even out -- (become
even or more even; "even out
the surface")
=> 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")
=> stiffen -- (make stiff or
stiffer; "Stiffen the cream by
adding gelatine")
=> loosen, loose -- (make
loose or looser; "loosen the
tension on a rope")
=> tighten, fasten -- (make
tight or tighter; "Tighten the
wire")
=> transitivize, transitivise
-- (make transitive; "adding
`out' to many verbs
transitivizes them")
=> detransitivize,
detransitivise,
intransitivize, intransitivise
-- (intransitivize; "removing
the object will intransitivize
the verbs")
=> thicken, inspissate --
(make thick or thicker;
"Thicken the sauce";
"inspissate the tar so that it
becomes pitch")
=> full -- (make (a garment)
fuller by pleating or
gathering)
=> diversify -- (make (more)
diverse; "diversify a course
of study")
=> deaden -- (make vapid or
deprive of spirit; "deadened
wine")
=> check, retard, delay --
(slow the growth or
development of; "The brain
damage will retard the child's
language development")
=> decrease, lessen, minify --
(make smaller; "He decreased
his staff")
=> liquefy, liquify,
liquidize, liquidise -- (make
(a solid substance) liquid, as
by heating; "liquefy the
silver")
=> solvate -- (cause a
solvation in (a substance))
=> dissolve -- (cause to fade
away; "dissolve a shot or a
picture")
=> validate -- (make valid or
confirm the validity of;
"validate a ticket")
=> invalidate, void, vitiate
-- (take away the legal force
of or render ineffective;
"invalidate a contract")
=> empty -- (make void or
empty of contents; "Empty the
box"; "The alarm emptied the
building")
=> fill, fill up, make full --
(make full, also in a
metaphorical sense; "fill a
container"; "fill the child
with pride")
=> saturate -- (cause (a
chemical compound, vapour,
solution, magnetic material)
to unite with the greatest
possible amount of another
substance)
=> clot, coagulate -- (cause
to change from a liquid to a
solid or thickened state)
=> louden -- (cause to become
loud)
=> 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")
=> morph -- (cause to change
shape in a computer animation;
"The computer programmer
morphed the image")
=> neutralize, neutralise --
(make chemically neutral; "She
neutralized the solution")
=> commercialize,
commercialise, market -- (make
commercial; "Some Amish people
have commercialized their way
of life")
=> purify, purge, sanctify --
(make pure or free from sin or
guilt; "he left the monastery
purified")
=> mechanize, mechanise --
(make mechanical; "mechanize
the procedure")
=> automatize, automatise,
automate -- (make automatic or
control or operate
automatically; "automatize the
production"; "automate the
movement of the robot")
=> automatize, automatise --
(turn into an automaton)
=> mechanize, mechanise --
(make monotonous; make
automatic or routine; "If your
work becomes too mechanized,
change jobs!")
=> harmonize, harmonise, chord
-- (bring into consonance,
harmony, or accord while
making music or singing)
=> polarize, polarise --
(cause to vibrate in a
definite pattern; "polarize
light waves")
=> glorify -- (bestow glory
upon; "The victory over the
enemy glorified the Republic")
=> contaminate -- (make
radioactive by adding
radioactive material; "Don't
drink the water--it's
contaminated")
=> devalue -- (lower the value
or quality of; "The tear
devalues the painting")
=> insulate -- (protect from
heat, cold, or noise by
surrounding with insulating
material; "We had his bedroom
insulated before winter came")
=> calcify -- (convert into
lime; "the salts calcified the
rock")
=> urbanize, urbanise -- (make
more industrial or city-like;
"The area was urbanized after
many people moved in")
=> urbanize, urbanise --
(impart urban habits, ways of
life, or responsibilities
upon; "Birds are being
urbanized by people in outdoor
cafes feeding them")
=> emulsify -- (cause to
become an emulsion; make into
an emulsion)
=> demulsify -- (cause to
demulsify)
=> decarboxylate -- (remove a
carboxyl group from (a
chemical compound))
=> 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")
=> fertilize, fecundate,
fertilise -- (make fertile or
productive; "The course
fertilized her imagination")
=> clarify -- (make clear by
removing impurities or solids,
as by heating; "clarify the
butter"; "clarify beer")
=> embrittle -- (make brittle)
=> mark -- (make or leave a
mark on; "the scouts marked
the trail"; "ash marked the
believers' foreheads")
=> barb -- (provide with
barbs; "barbed wire")
=> nick -- (divide or reset
the tail muscles of; "nick
horses")
=> disable, disenable,
incapacitate -- (make unable
to perform a certain action;
"disable this command on your
computer")
=> 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")
=> de-emphasize, de-emphasise,
destress -- (reduce the
emphasis)
=> tender, tenderize,
tenderise -- (make tender or
more tender as by marinating,
pounding, or applying a
tenderizer; "tenderize meat")
=> charge -- (cause formation
of a net electrical charge in
or on; "charge a conductor")
=> sweeten -- (make sweeter,
more pleasant, or more
agreeable; "sweeten a deal")
=> iodinate -- (cause to
combine with iodine; "iodinate
thyroxine")
=> ionate -- (add ions to)
=> archaize, archaise -- (give
an archaic appearance of
character to; "archaized
craftwork")
=> inform -- (give character
or essence to; "The principles
that inform modern teaching")
=> officialize, officialise --
(make official; "We
officialized our
relationship")
=> occidentalize,
occidentalise, westernize,
westernise -- (make western in
character; "The country was
Westernized after it opened
up")
=> orientalize, orientalise --
(make oriental in character;
"orientalize your garden")
=> acetylate, acetylize,
acetylise -- (introduce an
acetyl group into (a chemical
compound))
=> achromatize, achromatise --
(remove color from;
"achromatize the lenses")
=> parallel, collimate --
(make or place parallel to
something; "They paralleled
the ditch to the highway")
=> camp -- (give an
artificially banal or sexual
quality to)
=> classicize, classicise --
(make classic or classical)
=> conventionalize,
conventionalise -- (make
conventional or adapt to
conventions; "conventionalized
behavior")
=> decimalize, decimalise --
(change from fractions to
decimals; "Stock prices will
be decimalized in the year
2000")
=> dizzy -- (make dizzy or
giddy; "a dizzying pace")
=> poison, envenom -- (add
poison to; "Her husband
poisoned her drink in order to
kill her")
=> exteriorize, exteriorise,
externalize, externalise,
objectify -- (make external or
objective, or give reality to;
"language externalizes our
thoughts")
=> glamorize, glamourise,
glamourize, glamorise -- (make
glamorous and attractive;
"This new wallpaper really
glamorizes the living room!")
=> introvert -- (turn inside;
"He introverted his feelings")
=> laicize, laicise -- (reduce
to lay status; "laicize the
parochial schools")
=> politicize, politicise --
(give a political character
to; "politicize the
discussion")
=> radicalize -- (make more
radical in social or political
outlook; "Her work in the
developing world radicalized
her")
=> proof -- (activate by
mixing with water and
sometimes sugar or milk;
"proof yeast")
=> romanticize, romanticise --
(make romantic in style; "The
designer romanticized the
little black dress")
=> rusticate -- (lend a rustic
character to; "rusticate the
house in the country")
=> sauce -- (add zest or
flavor to, make more
interesting; "sauce the
roast")
=> shallow, shoal -- (make
shallow; "The silt shallowed
the canal")
=> tense -- (increase the
tension on; "alternately relax
and tense your calf muscle";
"tense the rope manually
before tensing the spring")
=> steepen -- (make steeper;
"The landslides have steepened
the mountain sides")
=> scramble -- (make
unintelligible; "scramble the
message so that nobody can
understand it")
=> unscramble -- (make
intelligible; "Can you
unscramble the message?")
=> unsex -- (remove the
qualities typical of one's
sex; "She unsexed herself")
=> vitrify -- (change into
glass or a glass-like
substance by applying heat)
=> pall -- (cause to become
flat; "pall the beer")
=> 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")
=> extend, expand -- (expand
the influence of; "The King
extended his rule to the
Eastern part of the
continent")
=> suspend, set aside -- (make
inoperative or stop; "suspend
payments on the loan")
=> muddy -- (make turbid;
"muddy the water")
=> transform -- (subject to a
mathematical transformation)
=> lift, raise, elevate --
(raise in rank or condition;
"The new law lifted many
people from poverty")
=> harshen -- (make harsh or
harsher; "Winter harshened the
look of the city")
=> dinge -- (make dingy)
=> demonize, demonise -- (make
into a demon; "Power had
demonized him")
=> devilize, devilise,
diabolize, diabolise -- (turn
into a devil or make devilish;
"Man devilized by war")
=> etherealize, etherialise --
(make ethereal)
=> immaterialize,
immaterialise,
unsubstantialize,
unsubstantialise -- (render
immaterial or incorporeal)
=> animize, animise, animate
-- (give lifelike qualities
to; "animated cartoons")
=> clear -- (make clear,
bright, light, or translucent;
"The water had to be cleared
through filtering")
=> dynamize, dynamise -- (make
(a drug) effective; "dynamized
medicine")
=> dynamize, dynamise -- (make
more dynamic; "She was
dynamized by her desire to go
to grad school")
=> rarefy, sublimate,
subtilize -- (make more subtle
or refined)
=> volatilize, volatilise --
(make volatile; cause to pass
off in a vapor)
=> uniformize, uniformise --
(make uniform; "the data have
been uniformized")
=> symmetrize, symmetrise --
(make symmetric; "symmetrized
waves")
=> immortalize, immortalise,
eternize, eternise,
eternalize, eternalise --
(make famous forever; "This
melody immortalized its
composer")
=> denature -- (make (alcohol)
unfit for drinking without
impairing usefulness for other
purposes)
=> 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)
=> denature -- (add
nonfissionable material to
(fissionable material) so as
to make unsuitable for use in
an atomic bomb)
=> 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")
=> verbify -- (make into a
verb; "'mouse' has been
verbified by computer users")
=> shift -- (move from one
setting or context to another;
"shift the emphasis"; "shift
one's attention")
=> sputter -- (cause to
undergo a process in which
atoms are removed; "The solar
wind protons must sputter away
the surface atoms of the
dust")
=> 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")
=> make -- (change from one
form into another; "make water
into wine"; "make lead into
gold"; "make clay into
bricks")
=> dope -- (add impurities to
(a semiconductor) in order to
produce or modify its
properties; "The resistors
have been doped")
=> prostrate -- (render
helpless or defenseless; "They
prostrated the enemy")
=> excite -- (produce a
magnetic field in; "excite the
neurons")
=> excite, energize, energise
-- (raise to a higher energy
level; "excite the atoms")
=> shake -- (bring to a
specified condition by or as
if by shaking; "He was shaken
from his dreams"; "shake the
salt out of the salt shaker")
=> outmode -- (make
unfashionable, outdated, or
obsolete; "Modern ways of
cooking have outmoded the
hearth")
=> spice, spice up -- (make
more interesting or flavorful;
"Spice up the evening by
inviting a belly dancer")
=> shorten -- (make short or
shorter; "shorten the skirt";
"shorten the rope by a few
inches")
=> think -- (bring into a
given condition by mental
preoccupation; "She thought
herself into a state of panic
over the final exam")
=> make -- (cause to be
enjoyable or pleasurable;
"make my day")
=> deflate -- (produce
deflation in; "The new
measures deflated the
economy")
=> inflate -- (cause prices to
rise by increasing the
available currency or credit;
"The war inflated the
economy")
=> reflate -- (economics:
raise demand, expand the money
supply, or raise prices, after
a period of deflation; "These
measures reflated the
economy")
=> digitize, digitise,
digitalize, digitalise -- (put
into digital form, as for use
in a computer; "he bought a
device to digitize the data")
=> gelatinize, gelatinise --
(convert into gelatinous form
or jelly; "hot water will
gelatinize starch")
=> recombine -- (cause genetic
recombination; "should
scientists recombine DNA?")
=> feminize, feminise,
effeminize, erreminise,
womanize -- (to give a (more)
feminine, effeminate, or
womanly quality or appearance
to; "This hairdo feminizes the
man")
=> 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")
=> masculinize -- (give a
masculine appearance or
character to; "Fashion
designers have masculinized
women's looks in the 1990s")
=> disharmonize, dissonate --
(cause to sound harsh and
unpleasant)
=> 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")
=> schematize, schematise --
(give conventional form to;
"some art forms schematise
designs into geometrical
patterns")
=> patent -- (make open to
sight or notice; "His behavior
has patented an embarrassing
fact about him")
=> constitutionalize,
constitutionalise --
(incorporate into a
constitution, make
constitutional; "A woman's
right to an abortion was
constitutionalized in the
1970's")
=> rationalize, rationalise --
(remove irrational quantities
from; "This function can be
rationalized")
=> plasticize, plasticise --
(make plastic, as by the
addition of a plasticizer;
"plasticized PVC")
=> rarefy -- (lessen the
density or solidity of; "The
bones are rarefied")
=> paganize, paganise -- (make
pagan in character; "The
Church paganized
Christianity")
=> incandesce -- (cause to
become incandescent or glow;
"the lamp was incandesced")
=> deaminate, deaminize --
(remove the amino radical
(usually by hydrolysis) from
an amino compound; to perform
deamination)
=> angulate -- (make or become
angular)
=> circularize -- (make
circular)
=> sensitize, sensitise --
(make (a material) sensitive
to light, often of a
particular colour, by coating
it with a photographic
emulsion; "sensitize the
photographic film")
=> sensitize, sensitise --
(make sensitive to a drug or
allergen; "Long-term exposure
to this medicine may sensitize
you to the allergen")
=> depolarize, depolarise --
(eliminate the polarization
of)
=> intensify -- (make the
chemically affected part of (a
negative) denser or more
opaque in order produce a
stronger contrast between
light and dark)
=> isomerize, isomerise --
(cause to change into an
isomer)
=> legitimate -- (make (an
illegitimate child)
legitimate; declare the
legitimacy of (someone); "They
legitimized their natural
child")
=> evaporate, vaporise --
(cause to change into a vapor;
"The chemist evaporated the
water")
=> industrialize,
industrialise -- (organize the
production of into an
industry; "The Chinese
industrialized textile
production")
=> opacify -- (make opaque;
"The glass was opacified more
greater privacy")
=> opsonize -- (make (cells)
more susceptible to the action
of phagocytes)
=> militarize, militarise --
(adopt for military use;
"militarize the Civil
Service")
=> nationalize, nationalise --
(make national in character or
scope; "His heroic deeds were
nationalized by the press")
=> recommend -- (make
attractive or acceptable;
"Honesty recommends any
person")
=> sentimentalize,
sentimentalise -- (make
(someone or something)
sentimental or imbue with
sentimental qualities; "Too
much poetry sentimentalizes
the mind"; "These experiences
have sentimentalized her")
=> solemnize, solemnise --
(make solemn and grave; "This
ceremony solemnized our
hearts")
=> territorialize,
territorialise -- (place on a
territorial basis; "The
railways were
territorialized")
=> transaminate -- (change (an
amino group) by transferring
it from one compound to
another)
=> transfigure, glorify,
spiritualize -- (elevate or
idealize, in allusion to
Christ's transfiguration)
=> unsanctify -- (remove the
sanctification from or make
unsanctified)
=> vesiculate -- (cause to
become vesicular or full of
air cells; "vesiculate an
organ")
=> visualize, visualise --
(make visible; "With this
machine, ultrasound can be
visualized")
=> variegate -- (change the
appearance of, especially by
marking with different colors)
=> ventilate -- (furnish with
an opening to allow air to
circulate or gas to escape;
"The architect did not think
about ventilating the storage
space")
=> vivify -- (make more
striking or animated; "his
remarks always vivify an
otherwise dull story")
=> vulgarise, vulgarize --
(debase and make vulgar; "The
Press has vulgarized Love and
Marriage")
=> supple -- (make pliant and
flexible; "These boots are not
yet suppled by frequent use")
=> 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")
=> smut -- (make obscene;
"This line in the play smuts
the entire act")
=> still -- (make motionless)
=> weaponize -- (make into or
use as a weapon or a potential
weapon; "Will modern
physicists weaponize String
Theory?")
=> eroticize, sex up -- (give
erotic or sexy character to;
"eroticize the ads")
=> piggyback -- (bring into
alignment with; "an amendment
to piggyback the current law")
=> confuse, blur, obscure,
obnubilate -- (make unclear,
indistinct, or blurred; "Her
remarks confused the debate";
"Their words obnubilate their
intentions")
=> confuse -- (make unclear or
incomprehensible; "The new tax
return forms only confuse")
=> 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")
=> obfuscate -- (make obscure
or unclear)
=> synchronize, synchronise --
(make (motion picture sound)
exactly simultaneous with the
action; "synchronize this
film")
=> mince, soften, moderate --
(make less severe or harsh;
"He moderated his tone when
the students burst out in
tears")
=> militarize, militarise --
(lend a military character to
(a country), as by building up
a military force; "militarize
Germany again after the war")
=> break down, crush -- (make
ineffective; "Martin Luther
King tried to break down
racial discrimination")
=> fatten, fat, flesh out,
fill out, plump, plump out,
fatten out, fatten up -- (make
fat or plump; "We will plump
out that poor starving child")
=> touch, disturb -- (tamper
with; "Don't touch my CDs!")
=> dull -- (make dull in
appearance; "Age had dulled
the surface")
=> dull, blunt -- (make dull
or blunt; "Too much cutting
dulls the knife's edge")
=> sharpen -- (make sharp or
sharper; "sharpen the knives")
=> coarsen -- (make or become
coarse or coarser; "coarsen
the surface"; "Their minds
coarsened")
=> loosen -- (make less dense;
"loosen the soil")
=> untie, undo, loosen --
(cause to become loose; "undo
the shoelace"; "untie the
knot"; "loosen the necktie")
=> barb -- (provide with
barbs; "barbed wire")
=> string -- (provide with
strings; "string my guitar")
=> straighten, straighten out
-- (make straight)
=> 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")
=> mix, mingle, commix, unify,
amalgamate -- (to bring or
combine together or with
something else; "resourcefully
he mingled music and dance")
=> charge -- (fill or load to
capacity; "charge the wagon
with hay")
=> put -- (cause to be in a
certain state; cause to be in
a certain relation; "That song
put me in awful good humor")
=> clean, make clean -- (make
clean by removing dirt, filth,
or unwanted substances from;
"Clean the stove!"; "The
dentist cleaned my teeth")
=> dirty, soil, begrime,
grime, colly, bemire -- (make
soiled, filthy, or dirty;
"don't soil your clothes when
you play outside!")
=> lower, depress -- (cause to
drop or sink; "The lack of
rain had depressed the water
level in the reservoir")
=> deform -- (make formless;
"the heat deformed the plastic
sculpture")
=> break, break up -- (destroy
the completeness of a set of
related items; "The book
dealer would not break the
set")
=> alter -- (make an
alteration to; "This dress
needs to be altered")
=> decorate, adorn, grace,
ornament, embellish, beautify
-- (make more attractive by
adding ornament, colour, etc.;
"Decorate the room for the
party"; "beautify yourself for
the special day")
=> humanize, humanise -- (make
more humane; "The mayor tried
to humanize life in the big
city")
=> humble -- (cause to be
unpretentious; "This
experience will humble him")
=> estrange, alienate, alien,
disaffect -- (arouse hostility
or indifference in where there
had formerly been love,
affection, or friendliness;
"She alienated her friends
when she became fanatically
religious")
=> right -- (put in or restore
to an upright position; "They
righted the sailboat that had
capsized")
=> desensitize, desensitise --
(cause not to be sensitive;
"The war desensitized many
soldiers"; "The photographic
plate was desensitized")
=> deodorize, deodorise,
deodourise -- (eliminate the
odor from; "This stick will
deodorize your armpits")
=> develop -- (make visible by
means of chemical solutions;
"Please develop this roll of
film for me")
=> blur -- (to make less
distinct or clear; "The haze
blurs the hills")
=> blind -- (make blind by
putting the eyes out; "The
criminals were punished and
blinded")
=> change intensity --
(increase or decrease in
intensity)
=> change taste -- (alter the
flavor of)
=> 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")
=> 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")
=> 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")
=> liberalize, liberalise --
(make liberal or more liberal,
of laws and rules)
=> right, compensate, redress,
correct -- (make reparations
or amends for; "right a wrongs
done to the victims of the
Holocaust")
=> democratize, democratise --
(introduce democratic reforms;
of nations)
=> neutralize -- (make
politically neutral and thus
inoffensive; "The treaty
neutralized the small
republic")
=> corrupt, pervert, subvert,
demoralize, demoralise,
debauch, debase, profane,
vitiate, deprave, misdirect --
(corrupt morally or by
intemperance or sensuality;
"debauch the young people with
wine and women"; "Socrates was
accused of corrupting young
men"; "Do school counselors
subvert young children?";
"corrupt the morals")
=> relax, loosen -- (make less
severe or strict; "The
government relaxed the curfew
after most of the rebels were
caught")
=> 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")
=> flocculate -- (cause to
become a fluffy or lumpy
aggregate; "The chemist
flocculated the suspended
material")
=> 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")
=> make possible -- (make
accessible; "This answer opens
the door to new objections")
=> cohere -- (cause to form a
united, orderly, and
aesthetically consistent
whole; "Religion can cohere
social groups")
Sense 4
interpolate, alter, falsify --
(insert words into texts,
often falsifying it thereby)
-> 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")
=> interpolate, alter, falsify
-- (insert words into texts,
often falsifying it thereby)
=> hack, cut up --
(significantly cut up a
manuscript)
=> black out -- (suppress by
censorship as for political
reasons; "parts of the
newspaper article were blacked
out")
=> blank out -- (cut out, as
for political reasons;
"several line in the report
were blanked out")
=> copyread, subedit, copyedit
-- (edit and correct (written
or printed material))
=> bracket, bracket out --
(place into brackets; "Please
bracket this remark")
Sense 5
alter, neuter, spay, castrate
-- (remove the ovaries of; "Is
your cat spayed?")
-> sterilize, sterilise,
desex, unsex, desexualize,
desexualise, fix -- (make
infertile; "in some countries,
people with genetically
transmissible disabilites are
sterilized")
=> alter, neuter, spay,
castrate -- (remove the
ovaries of; "Is your cat
spayed?")
=> emasculate, castrate,
demasculinize, demasculinise
-- (remove the testicles of a
male animal)
=> vasectomize, vasectomise --
(remove the vas deferens;
"many men choose to be
vasectomized as a form of safe
birth control") |
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