| means | (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago"
modification, alteration, change |
| means | (noun) the action of changing something; "the change of government had no impact on the economy"; "his change on abortion cost him the election"
change |
| means | (noun) a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event; "he attributed the change to their marriage"
change |
| means | (noun) the result of alteration or modification; "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs"; "there had been no change in the mountains"
change |
| means | (noun) a thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one"
change |
| means | (noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places; "the files are in complete disorder"
disorder, disorderliness |
| means | (verb) inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"
damage |
| means | (verb) 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"
alter, change, modify |
| means | (verb) make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"
barbarise, barbarize |
| means | (verb) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"
obliterate, obscure, veil, blot out, hide |
| means | (verb) have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"
bear on, touch, impact, bear upon, affect, touch on |
| means | (verb) make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
contaminate |
| means | (verb) tamper with; "Don't touch my CDs!"
touch, disturb |
| means | (verb) bring disorder to
disarray, disorder |
| means | (verb) cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed"
indispose |
| means | (verb) put in the place of another; switch seemingly equivalent items; "the con artist replaced the original with a fake Rembrandt"; "substitute regular milk with fat-free milk"; "synonyms can be interchanged without a changing the context's meaning"
substitute, replace, exchange, interchange |
| means | (verb) take away the legal force of or render ineffective; "invalidate a contract"
invalidate, vitiate, void |
| means | (verb) 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"
deprave, demoralize, misdirect, debase, pervert, corrupt, profane, vitiate, subvert, debauch, demoralise |
| means | (verb) cause to lose or change color; "The detergent discolored my shirts"
discolor |
| means | (verb) act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate"
affect |
| means | (verb) cause to become loose; "undo the shoelace"; "untie the knot"; "loosen the necktie"
untie, undo, loosen |
| means | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you"
unfit, indispose, disqualify |
| means | (verb) exchange a penalty for a less severe one
commute, exchange, convert |
| means | (verb) turn inside out or upside down
reverse, turn back, invert |
| means | (verb) make unclear, indistinct, or blurred; "Her remarks confused the debate"; "Their words obnubilate their intentions"
obscure, blur, confuse, obnubilate |
| means | (verb) cause to fade away; "dissolve a shot or a picture"
dissolve |
| means | (verb) destroy the completeness of a set of related items; "The book dealer would not break the set"
break, break up |
| means | (verb) make ineffective; "Martin Luther King tried to break down racial discrimination"
crush, break down |
| means | (verb) declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections"
dismiss, dissolve |
| means | (verb) 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"
change |
| means | (verb) change to the contrary; "The trend was reversed"; "the tides turned against him"; "public opinion turned when it was revealed that the president had an affair with a White House intern"
turn, change by reversal, reverse |
| means | (verb) become fractured; break or crack on the surface only; "The glass cracked when it was heated"
break, crack, check |
| means | (verb) cut away in small pieces
whittle down, wear away, whittle away |
| means | (verb) fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay"
decay, crumble, dilapidate |
| means | (verb) make worse or less effective; "His vision was impaired"
impair |
| means | (verb) become crude or savage or barbaric in behavior or language
barbarize, barbarise |
| means | (verb) render inoperable or ineffective; "You broke the alarm clock when you took it apart!"
break |
| means | (verb) add a flaw or blemish to; make imperfect or defective
flaw, blemish |
| means | (verb) make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty"
impair, deflower, mar, spoil, vitiate |
| means | (verb) stop operating or functioning; "The engine finally went"; "The car died on the road"; "The bus we travelled in broke down on the way to town"; "The coffee maker broke"; "The engine failed on the way to town"; "her eyesight went after the accident"
fail, give out, break, go bad, conk out, die, go, give way, break down |
| means | (verb) change color, often in an undesired manner; "The shirts discolored"
colour, discolor, discolour, color |
| means | (verb) ruin completely; "He busted my radio!"
bust, break |
| means | (verb) destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"
ruin, destroy |
| means | (verb) damage as if by shaking or jarring; "Don't disturb the patient's wounds by moving him too rapidly!"
disturb |
| means | (verb) damage or destroy; "The news of her husband's death shattered her life"
shatter |
| means | (verb) destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work"
mutilate, cut up, mangle |
| means | (verb) undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"
decay |
| means | (verb) mar or spoil the appearance of; "scars defaced her cheeks"; "The vandals disfigured the statue"
disfigure, deface, blemish |
| means | (verb) have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
impress, strike, affect, move |
| means | (verb) fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage"
let down, disappoint |
| means | (verb) lose color or turn colorless; "The painting discolored"
discolor |
| means | (verb) alter the shape of (something) by stress; "His body was deformed by leprosy"
strain, deform, distort |
| means | (verb) go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"
contravene, run afoul, infringe, conflict |
| means | (verb) destroy or cause to fail; "This behavior will ruin your chances of winning the election"
ruin |
| means | (verb) break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke"; "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof finally gave under the weight of the ice"
give, break, founder, fall in, collapse, cave in, give way |
| means | (verb) lower in value by increasing the base-metal content
debase, alloy |
| means | (verb) cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious
abash, embarrass |
| means | (verb) suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"
damage |
| means | (verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
distort, warp, garble, falsify |
| means | (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process"
disintegrate, decompose, decay |
| means | (verb) teach immoral behavior to; "It was common practice to lead off the young ones, and teach them bad habits"
lead astray, lead off |
| means | (verb) become soiled and dirty
foul |
| means | (verb) smash or break forcefully; "The kid busted up the car"
wreck, bust up, wrack |
| means | (verb) become deeper in tone; "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old"; "Her voice deepened when she whispered the password"
change, deepen |
| means | (verb) become worse or disintegrate; "His mind deteriorated"
deteriorate |
| means | (verb) be broken in; "If the new teacher won't break, we'll add some stress"
break |
| means | (verb) grow worse; "Her condition deteriorated"; "Conditions in the slums degenerated"; "The discussion devolved into a shouting match"
devolve, drop, degenerate, deteriorate |
| means | (verb) remove completely from recognition or memory; "efface the memory of the time in the camps"
efface, obliterate |
| means | (verb) corrupt with ideas or an ideology; "society was infected by racism"
infect |
| means | (verb) mar or impair with a flaw; "her face was blemished"
spot, blemish |
| means | (verb) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
harry, ravage |
| means | (verb) mistake one thing for another; "you are confusing me with the other candidate"; "I mistook her for the secretary"
confound, confuse |
| means | (verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..."
put out, disoblige, trouble, incommode, inconvenience, bother, discommode |
| means | (verb) cause to lose one's composure
untune, discomfit, upset, discompose, disconcert |
| means | (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake; "I blundered during the job interview"
drop the ball, goof, boob, sin, blunder |
| means | (verb) move out of position; "dislocate joints"; "the artificial hip joint luxated and had to be put back surgically"
dislocate, slip, luxate, splay |
| means | (verb) hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn"
block, obstruct, embarrass, blockade, hinder, stymie, stymy |
| means | (verb) corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
debase, stretch, adulterate, load, dilute |
| means | (verb) make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
foul, contaminate, pollute |
| means | (verb) change the arrangement or position of
vex, disturb, stir up, raise up, shake up, agitate, commove |
| means | (verb) make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair"
tussle, muss |
| means | (verb) cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
flurry, confuse, put off, disconcert |
| means | (verb) become separated into pieces or fragments; "The figurine broke"; "The freshly baked loaf fell apart"
split up, fall apart, break, come apart, separate |
| means | (verb) deprive of strength or vigor; "The Senate emasculated the law"
emasculate, castrate |
| means | (verb) contaminate with a disease or microorganism
infect, taint |
| means | (verb) burst outward, usually with noise; "The champagne bottle exploded"
burst, explode |
| means | (verb) find a flaw in; "break an alibi"; "break down a proof"
break |
| means | (verb) disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair"
tangle, dishevel, tousle |
| means | (verb) affect as in thought or feeling; "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; "The sadness tinged his life"
color, colour, distort, tinge |
| means | (verb) cause to burst with a violent release of energy; "We exploded the nuclear bomb"
blow up, set off, detonate, explode |
| means | (verb) become weaker; "The sound faded out"
fade away, dissolve, fade out |
| means | (verb) move deeply; "This book upset me"; "A troubling thought"
disturb, trouble, upset |
| means | (verb) destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies"
mutilate, mar |
| means | (verb) exchange for smaller units of money; "I had to break a $100 bill just to buy the candy"
break |
| means | (verb) cause to overturn from an upright or normal position; "The cat knocked over the flower vase"; "the clumsy customer turned over the vase"; "he tumped over his beer"
turn over, upset, knock over, tip over, tump over, overturn, bowl over |
| means | (verb) destroy by exploding; "The enemy exploded the bridge"
explode |
| means | (verb) destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country"
violate, despoil, rape, plunder, spoil |
| means | (verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
expose, peril, endanger, queer, scupper |
| means | (verb) represent falsely; "This statement misrepresents my intentions"
misrepresent, belie |
| means | (verb) make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages"
disrupt, interrupt, break up, cut off |
| means | (verb) make unclean; "foul the water"
foul |
| means | (verb) kill in large numbers; "the plague wiped out an entire population"
extinguish, eradicate, eliminate, wipe out, carry off, annihilate, decimate |
| means | (verb) break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth"
break off, knap, chip, cut off |
| means | (verb) cause to go into a solution; "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
resolve, dissolve, break up |