1. To cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; SYN. alter.
2. To make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; SYN. alter, vary.
3. To undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.
4. To exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; SYN. exchange, commute, convert.
5. To remove or replace the coverings of.
6. To change clothes; put on different clothes.
1. To be perceived in a certain way; make a certain impression.
2. To communicate the intended meaning or impression; SYN. come over.
3. When people cross from one side of a space or distance to where you are, they come across.
4. When you come across people or things, you see or find them without planning or expecting to. Run across is similar to come across.
5. When something you say or do comes across a certain way, your attitude or feelings are perceived in this way by other people.
1. To cause to adopt a different faith.
2. To change from one system to another; SYN. change over.
3. To change in nature; esp. undergo a chemical change.
4. To change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.
5. To change the nature of something.
6. To make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; SYN. win over, convince, turn.
1. To form a cover over; SYN. spread over.
2. To hide from view or knowledge; SYN. cover up.
3. To provide with a covering or cause to be covered
4. To spread over a surface to conceal or protect
5. To be responsible for guarding an opponent in a game.
6. To clothe, as if for protection from the elements; SYN. wrap up.
7. To protect by insurance; SYN. insure, underwrite.
8. To protect or defend a position in a game
9. To provide for
10. To take an action to protect against future problems
11. To span an interval of distance, space or time; SYN. extend.
12. To be sufficient to meet, defray, or offset the charge or cost of
13. To compensate or make up for.
14. To deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression; SYN. treat, handle, work, plow, deal, address.
15. To help out by taking someone's place an temporarily assuming his responsibilities
16. To invest with a large or excessive amount of something
17. To maintain a check on; esp. by patrolling
18. To play a higher card than the one previously played
1. To fold so as to resemble a cross
2. To meet and pass
3. To cover a wide area;,; SYN. traverse, span, sweep.
To reach a broader audience by a change of medium or style
To pass on or delegate to another.
(Homonym: dew, due).
(Irregular preterit, past participle: did, done).
1. To perform or act; .
2. To carry on or manage; SYN. manage.
3. To create or design, often in a certain way; SYN. make.
4. To get (something) done; SYN. perform.
5. To proceed or get along; SYN. fare, make out, come, get along.
6. To travel or traverse (a distance).
7. A function word used to form questions.
8. A function word used, in the negative, to frame negative sentences.
1. To go beyond; SYN. transcend, overstep, pass, go past, top.
2. To go beyond; SYN. transcend, surpass.
To communicate successfully; SYN. put over.
1. To change or be different within limits; SYN. run.
2. To have a range; be capable of projecting over a certain distance, as of a gun
3. To lay out in a line; SYN. array, lay out, set out.
4. To range or extend over; occupy a certain area; SYN. straddle.
1. To deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit; SYN. deny.
2. To travel across or pass over; SYN. track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across.
(Homonym: wok).
1. To use one's feet to advance; advance by steps.
2. To traverse by walking.
3. To take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure.
4. To take a person or an animal for a walk.
5. To behave in a specified manner.
6. (Baseball) To obtain a base on balls.
7. (Baseball) To allow a player to move to base by pitching balls to him.
8. To be or act in association with.
ETYM Cf. Old Fren. ancesserie. Related to Ancestor.
Inherited properties shared with others of one's bloodline; SYN. lineage, derivation, filiation.
ETYM Cf. French antécédent.
1. A preceding occurrence or cause or event.
2. Anything that precedes something similar in time; SYN. forerunner.
3. The referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun.