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CHANGE INTEGRITY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change in physical make-up
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "change integrity" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change integrity"):
carve up; dissever; divide; separate; split; split up (separate into parts or portions)
break down; collapse; crumble; crumple; tumble (fall apart)
separate (divide into components or constituents)
jellify (become jelly)
jellify; jelly (make into jelly)
demulsify (break down into components)
break up; dissolve; resolve (cause to go into a solution)
crystalise; crystalize; crystallise; crystallize (cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form)
solidify (make solid or more solid; cause to solidify)
solidify (become solid)
flux; liquefy; liquify (become liquid or fluid when heated)
aerify; gasify; vaporise; vaporize (turn into gas)
inspissate; thicken (make viscous or dense)
decay; decompose; disintegrate (lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current)
disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)
blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)
burn; incinerate (cause to undergo combustion)
evaporate; vaporise; vaporize (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)
condense (cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid)
pasteurise; pasteurize (heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms)
break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up (become separated into pieces or fragments)
break up; disperse; scatter (cause to separate)
cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)
blow up; detonate; explode; set off (cause to burst with a violent release of energy)
burst; explode (burst outward, usually with noise)
polymerise; polymerize (cause (a compound) to polymerize)
polymerise; polymerize (undergo polymerization)
reform (break up the molecules of)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
