Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
- duplicate
- increase twofold
- roast
- cook with dry heat, usually in an oven
- optimize
- modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost
- die off
- become extinct
- flower
- produce or yield flowers
- mount
- go up or advance
- redouble
- make twice as great or intense
- come apart
- become separated into pieces or fragments
- rationalize
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- pound
- break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle
- sauce
- add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
- iodinate
- cause to combine with iodine
- clot
- turn into curds
- freeze-dry
- preserve by rapid freezing and subsequently drying in a vacuum
- saponify
- become converted into soap by being hydrolized into an acid and alcohol as a result of being treated with an alkali
- chink
- make cracks or chinks in
- gauge
- measure precisely and against a standard
- denationalize
- put under private control or ownership
- suppress
- lessen to the point of stopping
- commutate
- reverse the direction of (an alternating electric current) each half cycle so as to produce a unidirectional current
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