Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- etch
- selectively dissolve the surface of (a semiconductor or printed circuit) with a solvent, laser, or stream of electrons
- shorten
- make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- save
- make unnecessary an expenditure or effort
- irrupt
- increase rapidly and in an uncontrolled manner
- befall
- happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance
- weaponize
- make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon
- enlarge
- make larger
- lustrate
- purify by means of a ritual; also used in post-Communist countries to refer to the political cleansing of former officials
- full
- make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
- vegetate
- grow like a plant
- cremate
- reduce to ashes
- sandbag
- protect or strengthen with sandbags; stop up
- obstinate
- persist stubbornly
- vamp
- provide (a shoe) with a new vamp
- tumble
- suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat
- fit
- make fit
- carmine
- color carmine
- flame up
- become ignited
- professionalize
- make professional or give a professional character to
- baffle
- restrain the emission of (sound, fluid, etc.)
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