Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- crack
- break partially but keep its integrity
- freeze
- stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it
- catch on
- become popular
- devitrify
- become crystalline
- culminate
- end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage
- reef
- roll up (a portion of a sail) in order to reduce its area
- transform
- increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
- shrink
- become smaller or draw together
- maturate
- develop and reach maturity; undergo maturation
- crop out
- appear at the surface
- gentrify
- renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
- denaturalise
- make less natural or unnatural
- Americanize
- make American in character
- strip
- remove the thread (of screws)
- snuff out
- put an end to; kill
- toughen
- make tough or tougher
- readapt
- adapt anew
- tell on
- produce an effect or strain on somebody
- straighten out
- settle or put right
- micro-cook
- cook or heat in a microwave oven
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