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CHANGE STATE

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 I. (verb) 

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Meaning:

Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action

Example:

The people turned against the President when he stole the election

Synonyms:

change state; turn

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "change state" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Verb group:

grow; turn (pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become)

become; turn (undergo a change or development)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change state"):

precipitate (separate as a fine suspension of solid particles)

integrate (become one; become integrated)

ferment; sour; turn; work (go sour or spoil)

clot; coagulate (change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state)

clabber; clot; curdle (turn into curds)

homogenise; homogenize (break up the fat globules of)

homogenise; homogenize (become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing)

fill; fill up (become full)

discharge; empty (become empty or void of its content)

dissolve; fade away; fade out (become weaker)

react (undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions)

solvate (undergo solvation or convert into a solvate)

inspissate; thicken (become thick or thicker)

thin (lose thickness; become thin or thinner)

Frenchify (become French in appearance or character)

emaciate (grow weak and thin or waste away physically)

burn; combust (undergo combustion)

boil (come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor)

catch fire; combust; conflagrate; erupt; ignite; take fire (start to burn or burst into flames)

liquefy (become liquid)

get into; tangle with (get involved in or with)

emancipate; liberate (give equal rights to; of women and minorities)

flourish; fly high; prosper; thrive (make steady progress; be at the high point in one's career or reach a high point in historical significance or importance)

calm; calm down; chill out; cool it; cool off; settle down; simmer down (become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation)

sorb; take up (take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption)

close; shut (become closed)

open; open up (become open)

thrombose (become blocked by a thrombus)

etherify (change into an ether)

esterify (change (a compound) into an ester)

denitrify (remove nitrogen from)

emulsify (form into or become an emulsion)

chondrify (turn into cartilage)

carnify (become muscular or fleshy)

coke (become coke)

calcify (turn into lime; become calcified)

disengage (become free)

ameliorate; better; improve; meliorate (get better)

decline; worsen (grow worse)

become; get; go (enter or assume a certain state or condition)

fall (pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind)

equilibrate (bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium)

citrate (cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid)

secularise; secularize (make secular and draw away from a religious orientation)

conceive (become pregnant; undergo conception)

cross-fertilise; cross-fertilize (undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile)

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog (provide with clothes or put clothes on)

gain; put on (increase (one's body weight))

melt off; reduce; slenderize; slim; slim down; thin (take off weight)

decompress; loosen up; relax; slow down; unbend; unwind (become less tense, rest, or take one's ease)

tense; tense up (become tense, nervous, or uneasy)

come to; resuscitate; revive (return to consciousness)

black out; pass out; zonk out (lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example)

arouse; awake; awaken; come alive; wake; wake up; waken (stop sleeping)

freeze (change to ice)

carbonise; carbonize; carburise; carburize (unite with carbon)

heat; heat up; hot up (gain heat or get hot)

chill; cool; cool down (loose heat)

carbonise; carbonize (turn into carbon, as by burning)

cloud over (become overcast)

be born (come into existence through birth)

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

break loose; burst forth; explode (be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise)

fluctuate (be unstable)

get worse; relapse (deteriorate in health)

catalyse; catalyze (change by catalysis or cause to catalyze)

ossify (become bony)

ionise; ionize (convert into ions)

alkalify; alkalise; alkalize; basify (turn basic and less acidic)

acetify; acidify (turn acidic)

break (crack; of the male voice in puberty)

concentrate (make denser, stronger, or purer)

overgrow (become overgrown)

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