change state

1. Undergo a transformation or a change of position or action (synset 200145958)
   "We turned from Socialism to Capitalism"; "The people turned against the President when he stole the election"
   is a type of: change - undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
   subtypes:

   • arouse, awake, awaken, come alive, wake, wake up, waken - stop sleeping
   • black out, pass out, zonk out - lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
   • come to, resuscitate, revive - return to consciousness
   • tense, tense up - become tense, nervous, or uneasy
   • decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind - become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
   • melt off, reduce, slenderize, slim, slim down, thin - take off weight
   • gain, put on - increase (one's body weight)
   • apparel, clothe, dress, enclothe, fit out, garb, garment, habilitate, raiment, tog - provide with clothes or put clothes on
   • cross-fertilise, cross-fertilize - undergo cross-fertilization; become fertile
   • conceive - become pregnant; undergo conception
   • secularise, secularize - make secular and draw away from a religious orientation
   • citrate - cause to form a salt or ester of citric acid
   • equilibrate - bring to a chemical stasis or equilibrium
   • fall - pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind
   • become, get, go - enter or assume a certain state or condition
   • decline, worsen - grow worse
   • ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate - get better
   • disengage - become free
   • overgrow - become overgrown
   • concentrate - make denser, stronger, or purer
   • break - crack; of the male voice in puberty
   • acetify, acidify - turn acidic
   • alkalify, alkalise, alkalize, basify - turn basic and less acidic
   • ionise, ionize - convert into ions
   • ossify - become bony
   • catalyse, catalyze - change by catalysis or cause to catalyze
   • get worse, relapse - deteriorate in health
   • fluctuate - be unstable
   • break loose, burst forth, explode - be unleashed; emerge with violence or noise
   • 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
   • be born - come into existence through birth
   • cloud over - become overcast
   • carbonise, carbonize - turn into carbon, as by burning
   • chill, cool, cool down - loose heat
   • heat, heat up, hot up - gain heat or get hot
   • carbonise, carbonize, carburise, carburize - unite with carbon
   • freeze - change to ice
   • boil - come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor
   • burn, combust - undergo combustion
   • emaciate - grow weak and thin or waste away physically
   • frenchify - become French in appearance or character
   • thin - lose thickness; become thin or thinner
   • inspissate, thicken - become thick or thicker
   • solvate - undergo solvation or convert into a solvate
   • react - undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions
   • dissolve, fade away, fade out - become weaker
   • discharge, empty - become empty or void of its content
   • fill, fill up - become full
   • homogenise, homogenize - become homogeneous or similar, as by mixing
   • homogenise, homogenize - break up the fat globules of
   • clabber, clot, curdle - turn into curds
   • clot, coagulate - change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state
   • ferment, sour, turn, work - go sour or spoil
   • integrate - become one; become integrated
   • precipitate - separate as a fine suspension of solid particles
   • calcify - turn into lime; become calcified
   • coke - become coke
   • carnify - become muscular or fleshy
   • chondrify - turn into cartilage
   • emulsify - form into or become an emulsion
   • denitrify - remove nitrogen from
   • esterify - change (a compound) into an ester
   • etherify - change into an ether
   • thrombose - become blocked by a thrombus
   • open, open up - become open
   • close, shut - become closed
   • sorb, take up - take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption
   • calm, calm down, chill out, cool it, cool off, settle down, simmer down - become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation
   • 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
   • emancipate, liberate - give equal rights to; of women and minorities
   • get into, tangle with - get involved in or with
   • liquefy - become liquid
   • catch fire, combust, conflagrate, erupt, ignite, take fire - start to burn or burst into flames
   same as: turn
   verb group:

   • grow, turn - pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become
   • become, turn - undergo a change or development

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