change
1. change (v)
undergo a change. "She changed completely as she grew older". "The weather changed last night".
2. change (v)
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".
3. change (v)
cause to change. "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue".
4. change (v)
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category. "He changed his name".
5. change (v)
remove or replace the coverings of. "Father had to learn how to change the baby". "After each guest we changed the bed linens".
6. change (v)
change clothes. "Change before you go to the opera".
7. change (n)
the action of changing something. "the change of government had no impact on the economy". "his change on abortion cost him the election".
8. change (v)
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another. "The car changed lanes".
9. change (v)
become deeper in tone. "His voice began to change when he was 12 years old".
10. change (v)
change from one vehicle or transportation line to another. "She changed in Chicago on her way to the East coast".
11. change (v)
give to, and receive from, one another. "Would you change places with me?".
12. change (n)
a different or fresh set of clothes. "she brought a change in her overnight bag".
13. change (n)
a thing that is different. "he inspected several changes before selecting one".
14. change (n)
a difference that is usually pleasant. "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic".
15. change (n)
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".
16. change (n)
the result of alteration or modification. "there were marked changes in the lining of the lungs". "there had been no change in the mountains".
17. change (n)
money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency. "he got change for a twenty and used it to pay the taxi driver".
18. change (n)
the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due. "I paid with a twenty and pocketed the change".
19. change (n)
coins of small denomination regarded collectively. "he had a pocketful of change".
20. change (n)
a relational difference between states. "he attributed the change to their marriage".
Opposite meanings of change (Anytonyms)
remain, remain, rest, rest, stay, stay
Cause
change
Words derived from change
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change is an instance of
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Word and things that fall within change
freshen, freshen up, refresh, refreshen, dress, get dressed, acquire, develop, get, grow, produce, regenerate, shade, gel, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, creolize, mutate, experience, have, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, roll, roll up, glass, glass over, glaze, glaze over, grow, turn, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, change by reversal, reverse, turn, change integrity, change form, change shape, deform, form, change state, turn, adapt, adjust, conform, climb up, jump, rise, assimilate, dissimilate, dissimilate, change magnitude, modify, deaden, break, crumble, decay, dilapidate, mildew, mold, hydrate, dry, dry out, strengthen, distil, distill, deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce, crack, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, grow, mellow, mellow out, melt, soften, ionise, ionize, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, lighten, lighten up, color, colour, discolor, discolour, discolor, contract, narrow, darken, dim, boil, break, check, crack, transpire, resume, take up, change surface, sublimate, sublime, cool, cool down, cool off, warm up, warm, warm up, metamorphose, transform, transmute, convert, dull, complexify, ramify, Americanise, Americanize, develop, modernise, modernize, stiffen, tighten, break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad, give way, yield, harden, indurate, harden, indurate, suffuse, hush, normalise, normalize, reorient, purify, digest, regress, foul, decalcify, industrialise, industrialize, decarboxylate, spot, find, get, incur, obtain, receive, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, acquire, adopt, assume, take, take on, prim, capacitate, caseate, caseate, clinker, cure, dawn, salinate, desalinate, desalinise, desalinize, desalt, shallow, shoal, steepen, superannuate, ulcerate, vitrify, vulcanise, vulcanize, dull, pall, become flat, die, pall, saponify, go, move, run, come, catch, catch on, develop, grow, fly, acquire, develop, evolve, assibilate, smoothen, turn on, drop, break into, change, deepen, concretise, concretize, decay, commute, transpose, introject, shift, swing, fall, fall, reflate, hydrolyse, hydrolyze, fold, fold up, gelatinise, gelatinize, felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up, recombine, feminise, feminize, obsolesce, plasticise, plasticize, recede, defervesce, incandesce, calcify, drift, play out, conjugate, isomerise, isomerize, evaporate, vaporise, indurate, gradate, keratinise, keratinize, opacify, mature, rejuvenate, sequester, transaminate, vesiculate, undulate, vascularise, vascularize, crash, professionalise, professionalize, shift, flip, flip out, gum, repress, shear, damage, synthesize, come around, come round, promote, divide, part, separate, arrange, format, fall for, ascend, move up, rise, change posture, settle, break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way, undergo, solarise, solarize, occult, pass, depart, leave, pull up stakes, liberalise, liberalize, stratify, democratise, democratize, loosen, relax, reticulate, flocculate, carbonate, come in, go out, stagnate, make, frost over, ice over, ice up, alternate, jump, crackle, modulate, avianise, avianize, move, accommodate, adapt, let out, widen, take in, branch out, broaden, diversify, diversify, radiate, narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize, honeycomb, break, arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken, cause to sleep, affect, freshen, refresh, refreshen, fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate, indispose, cry, etiolate, shade, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, opalise, opalize, arterialise, arterialize, get, make, counterchange, interchange, transpose, vascularise, vascularize, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, overturn, revolutionise, revolutionize, etiolate, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize, allegorise, allegorize, demythologise, demythologize, bring, land, coarsen, affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on, alchemise, alchemize, alcoholise, alcoholize, form, shape, round, round down, round off, round out, suspend, sober, reconstruct, increase, ease off, ease up, let up, assimilate, dissimilate, commute, convert, exchange, vitalise, vitalize, clear, unclutter, activate, activate, activate, aerate, activate, deactivate, inactivate, blunt, deaden, reconstruct, redo, remodel, edit, redact, cut, edit, edit out, chasten, subdue, tame, chasten, moderate, temper, ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen, wet, dry, dry out, lubricate, beef up, fortify, strengthen, fortify, lace, spike, weaken, blunt, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, merge, unify, unite, age, mature, ripen, antiquate, antique, antiquate, develop, make grow, soften, damage, ossify, acerbate, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize, desensitise, desensitize, accustom, habituate, disarray, disorder, discolor, color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize, stain, hue, uglify, untune, adjust, correct, set, set, disqualify, indispose, unfit, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame, widen, dehydrogenate, hydrogenate, oxygenise, oxygenize, darken, brighten, lighten, lighten up, blear, blur, bedim, obscure, overcloud, blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure, veil, cook, slenderise, slenderize, crack, dismiss, dissolve, end, terminate, defog, demist, concentrate, condense, contract, chill, cool, cool down, heat, heat up, warm, boil, freeze, blister, change over, shift, switch, transpose, change over, convert, transform, transform, transform, transmute, transform, transmute, transubstantiate, ash, transform, translate, reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate, convert, Islamise, Islamize, invert, reverse, turn back, invert, customise, customize, individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize, depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify, sharpen, drop, flatten, disintegrate, magnetise, magnetize, degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize, simplify, complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine, refine, complicate, perplex, pressurise, pressurize, supercharge, centralise, centralize, concentrate, decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate, socialise, socialize, fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up, internationalise, internationalize, bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize, Europeanise, Europeanize, Europeanise, Europeanize, bestialise, bestialize, Americanise, Americanize, Frenchify, civilise, civilize, nationalise, nationalize, denationalise, denationalize, naturalise, naturalize, denaturalise, denaturalize, naturalise, naturalize, denaturalise, denaturalize, even, even out, equal, equalise, equalize, equate, match, stiffen, loose, loosen, fasten, tighten, transitivise, transitivize, detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize, inspissate, thicken, full, diversify, decelerate, slow down, deaden, accelerate, speed, speed up, check, delay, retard, decrease, lessen, minify, liquefy, liquidise, liquidize, liquify, solvate, dissolve, validate, invalidate, vitiate, void, empty, fill, fill up, make full, saturate, clot, coagulate, louden, normalise, normalize, renormalise, renormalize, morph, neutralise, neutralize, commercialise, commercialize, market, purge, purify, sanctify, mechanise, mechanize, automate, automatise, automatize, automatise, automatize, mechanise, mechanize, chord, harmonise, harmonize, polarise, polarize, glorify, contaminate, devalue, insulate, calcify, urbanise, urbanize, urbanise, urbanize, emulsify, demulsify, decarboxylate, nazify, fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, clarify, embrittle, mark, nick, disable, disenable, incapacitate, enable, de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress, tender, tenderise, tenderize, charge, bubble, sweeten, iodinate, ionate, archaise, archaize, inform, officialise, officialize, occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize, orientalise, orientalize, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, achromatise, achromatize, collimate, parallel, camp, classicise, classicize, conventionalise, conventionalize, decimalise, decimalize, dizzy, envenom, poison, exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify, glamorise, glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, introvert, laicise, laicize, politicise, politicize, radicalize, proof, romanticise, romanticize, rusticate, sauce, shallow, shoal, tense, steepen, scramble, unscramble, unsex, vitrify, pall, saponify, expand, extend, set aside, suspend, muddy, transform, elevate, lift, raise, harshen, dinge, demonise, demonize, devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize, etherealize, etherialise, immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize, animate, animise, animize, clear, dynamise, dynamize, dynamise, dynamize, rarefy, sublimate, subtilize, volatilise, volatilize, uniformise, uniformize, symmetrise, symmetrize, eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize, denature, denature, denature, sanitise, sanitize, verbify, shift, sputter, draw, make, dope, prostrate, excite, energise, energize, excite, shake, outmode, spice, spice up, shorten, think, make, deflate, inflate, reflate, digitalise, digitalize, digitise, digitize, gelatinise, gelatinize, recombine, effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize, masculinise, masculinize, virilise, virilize, masculinize, disharmonize, dissonate, sexualise, sexualize, schematise, schematize, patent, constitutionalise, constitutionalize, rationalise, rationalize, plasticise, plasticize, rarefy, paganise, paganize, incandesce, deaminate, deaminize, angulate, circularize, sensitise, sensitize, sensitise, sensitize, depolarise, depolarize, intensify, isomerise, isomerize, legitimate, evaporate, vaporise, industrialise, industrialize, opacify, opsonize, militarise, militarize, nationalise, nationalize, recommend, sentimentalise, sentimentalize, solemnise, solemnize, territorialise, territorialize, transaminate, glorify, spiritualize, transfigure, unsanctify, vesiculate, visualise, visualize, variegate, ventilate, vivify, vulgarise, vulgarize, supple, professionalise, professionalize, smut, still, weaponize, eroticize, sex up, piggyback, port, lifehack, cloud, blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure, moderate, tame, tone down, obfuscate, synchronise, synchronize, mince, moderate, soften, militarise, militarize, break down, crush, fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out, disturb, touch, dull, blunt, dull, sharpen, coarsen, loosen, loosen, undo, untie, barb, string, straighten, straighten out, bring, amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify, charge, put, clean, make clean, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil, depress, lower, deform, break, break up, alter, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament, humanise, humanize, humble, alien, alienate, disaffect, estrange, right, desensitise, desensitize, deodorise, deodorize, deodourise, develop, blur, blind, change intensity, change taste, exchange, interchange, replace, substitute, capture, add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend, reestablish, reinstate, restore, liberalise, liberalize, compensate, correct, redress, right, democratise, democratize, neutralize, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate, loosen, relax, unify, unite, flocculate, turn, cohere, rectify, utilize, capitalise, capitalize, launder, break, entail, about-face, policy change, reversal, volte-face, adulteration, move, relocation, downshift, downshift, filtration, reduction, simplification, decimalisation, decimalization, metrication, metrification, variation, turning, diversification, variegation, flux, shift, switch, switching, commutation, exchange, substitution, promotion, demotion, change of state, adjustment, alteration, modification, motion, move, movement, movement, motility, motion, move, movement, change of direction, reorientation, change of magnitude, change of integrity, conversion, updating, change of shape, satisfaction, nationalisation, nationalization, communisation, communization, secularisation, secularization, rollover, transition, shift, break, channel-surf, surf, jump, leap, diphthongise, diphthongize, cut, break, sell, cash, cash in, ransom, redeem, redeem, fill in, stand in, sub, substitute, swap, switch, swop, trade, barter, trade, trade in, acceleration, deceleration, retardation, slowing, avulsion, break, mutation, sublimation, surprise, birth, nascence, nascency, nativity, breakup, detachment, separation, vagary, fluctuation, variation, conversion, death, decease, expiry, decrease, drop-off, lessening, destabilization, increase, easing, moderation, relief, deformation, transition, shift, transformation, transmutation, scintillation, sparkling, twinkle, play, shimmer, transmutation, damage, harm, impairment, development, revolution, chromosomal mutation, genetic mutation, mutation, sex change, loss of consciousness, depolarisation, depolarization, difference, gradient
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