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develop
Overview of verb develop
The verb develop has 21 senses (first 14 from tagged texts)
1. (48) develop -- (make something new, such as a product or a mental or artistic creation; "Her company developed a new kind of building material that withstands all kinds of weather"; "They developed a new technique")
2. (45) evolve, germinate, develop -- (work out; "We have developed a new theory of evolution")
3. (42) develop, acquire, evolve -- (gain through experience; "I acquired a strong aversion to television"; "Children must develop a sense of right and wrong"; "Dave developed leadership qualities in his new position"; "develop a passion for painting")
4. (19) grow, develop, produce, get, acquire -- (come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes); "He grew a beard"; "The patient developed abdominal pains"; "I got funny spots all over my body"; "Well-developed breasts")
5. (15) originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow -- (come into existence; take on form or shape; "A new religious movement originated in that country"; "a love that sprang up from friendship"; "the idea for the book grew out of a short story"; "An interesting phenomenon uprose")
6. (12) build up, develop -- (change the use of and make available or usable; "develop land"; "The country developed its natural resources"; "The remote areas of the country were gradually built up")
7. (6) explicate, formulate, develop -- (elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis")
8. (5) train, develop, prepare, educate -- (create by training and teaching; "The old master is training world-class violinists"; "we develop the leaders for the future")
9. (4) develop -- (be gradually disclosed or unfolded; become manifest; "The plot developed slowly";)
10. (4) develop -- (grow, progress, unfold, or evolve through a process of evolution, natural growth, differentiation, or a conducive environment; "A flower developed on the branch"; "The country developed into a mighty superpower"; "The embryo develops into a fetus"; "This situation has developed over a long time")
11. (3) modernize, modernise, develop -- (become technologically advanced; "Many countries in Asia are now developing at a very fast pace"; "Viet Nam is modernizing rapidly")
12. (3) develop, make grow -- (cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development; "The perfect climate here develops the grain"; "He developed a new kind of apple")
13. (1) develop -- (generate gradually; "We must develop more potential customers"; "develop a market for the new mobile phone")
14. (1) develop, grow -- (grow emotionally or mature; "The child developed beautifully in her new kindergarten"; "When he spent a summer at camp, the boy grew noticeably and no longer showed some of his old adolescent behavior")
15. develop -- (make visible by means of chemical solutions; "Please develop this roll of film for me")
16. develop -- (superimpose a three-dimensional surface on a plane without stretching, in geometry)
17. develop -- (move one's pieces into strategically more advantageous positions; "Spassky developed quickly")
18. develop -- (move into a strategically more advantageous position; "develop the rook")
19. develop -- (elaborate by the unfolding of a musical idea and by the working out of the rhythmic and harmonic changes in the theme; "develop the melody and change the key")
20. break, recrudesce, develop -- (happen; "Report the news as it develops"; "These political movements recrudesce from time to time")
21. develop -- (expand in the form of a series; "Develop the function in the following form")
Grep of noun develop
developer
developing
developing country
development
developmental age
developmental anatomy
developmental learning
developmental psychology
Antonyms of verb develop
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb develop
21 senses of develop
Sense 1
develop
=> create
Sense 2
evolve, germinate, develop
=> create by mental act, create mentally
=> make, create
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
Sense 4
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> change
Sense 5
originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
=> become
Sense 6
build up, develop
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 7
explicate, formulate, develop
=> speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
=> expect, anticipate
=> evaluate, pass judgment, judge
=> think, cogitate, cerebrate
Sense 8
train, develop, prepare, educate
=> teach, learn, instruct
=> inform
=> communicate, intercommunicate
=> interact
=> act, move
Sense 9
develop
=> happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sense 10
develop
=> grow
=> increase
=> change magnitude
=> change
Sense 11
modernize, modernise, develop
=> change
Sense 12
develop, make grow
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 13
develop
=> generate, bring forth
=> make, create
Sense 14
develop, grow
=> change
Sense 15
develop
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 16
develop
=> superimpose, superpose, lay over
=> put, set, place, pose, position, lay
=> move, displace
Sense 17
develop
=> play
=> compete, vie, contend
Sense 18
develop
=> play
=> compete, vie, contend
Sense 19
develop
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 20
break, recrudesce, develop
=> happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sense 21
develop
=> expand
=> enlarge
=> increase
=> change, alter, modify
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb develop
11 of 21 senses of develop
Sense 1
develop
=> build
Sense 4
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> fledge, feather
=> regrow
=> spring
=> sprout, stock
=> stool, tiller
=> leaf
=> pod
=> teethe
=> pupate
=> work up, get up
=> cut
Sense 5
originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
=> resurge
=> come forth, emerge
=> come, follow
=> well up, swell
=> head
Sense 6
build up, develop
=> redevelop
=> settle
Sense 7
explicate, formulate, develop
=> mature
=> redevelop, reformulate
Sense 8
train, develop, prepare, educate
=> retrain
=> drill
=> housebreak, house-train
=> toilet-train
Sense 10
develop
=> differentiate
=> dedifferentiate
=> grow
=> senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate
=> age
=> progress, come on, come along, advance, get on, get along, shape up
=> mature, maturate, grow
=> evolve
=> adolesce
=> build up, work up, build, progress
=> incubate
=> blossom, blossom out, blossom forth, unfold
=> bloom, blossom, flower
=> spike, spike out
=> bud
Sense 12
develop, make grow
=> grow
=> work out, work up
=> elaborate, work out
=> foliate
=> discipline, train, check, condition
Sense 13
develop
=> make
Sense 14
develop, grow
=> outgrow
=> make
Sense 15
develop
=> solarize, solarise
=> underdevelop
=> redevelop
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb develop
21 senses of develop
Sense 1
develop
=> create
Sense 2
evolve, germinate, develop
=> create by mental act, create mentally
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
=> change
Sense 4
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> change
Sense 5
originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
=> become
Sense 6
build up, develop
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
Sense 7
explicate, formulate, develop
=> speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
Sense 8
train, develop, prepare, educate
=> teach, learn, instruct
Sense 9
develop
=> happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sense 10
develop
=> grow
Sense 11
modernize, modernise, develop
=> change
Sense 12
develop, make grow
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 13
develop
=> generate, bring forth
Sense 14
develop, grow
=> change
Sense 15
develop
=> change, alter, modify
Sense 16
develop
=> superimpose, superpose, lay over
Sense 17
develop
=> play
Sense 18
develop
=> play
Sense 19
develop
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
Sense 20
break, recrudesce, develop
=> happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
Sense 21
develop
=> expand
'Cause To' of verb develop
1 of 21 senses of develop
Sense 12
develop, make grow
=> develop
=> grow
Derived Forms of verb develop
10 of 21 senses of develop
Sense 1
develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#1
=> development
Sense 4
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
RELATED TO>(noun) development#7
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Sense 6
build up, develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#5
=> development
RELATED TO>(noun) development#4
=> exploitation, development
RELATED TO>(noun) developer#1
=> developer
Sense 10
develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#7
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
Sense 11
modernize, modernise, develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#1
=> development
Sense 14
develop, grow
RELATED TO>(noun) development#2
=> development, evolution
Sense 15
develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#8
=> development, developing
RELATED TO>(noun) developer#2
=> developer
RELATED TO>(noun) developing#1
=> development, developing
Sense 17
develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#6
=> development
Sense 18
develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#6
=> development
Sense 20
break, recrudesce, develop
RELATED TO>(noun) development#3
=> development
Domain of verb develop
4 of 21 senses of develop
Sense 15
develop
TOPIC>(noun) photography#2
TOPIC>(noun) photography#1, picture taking#1
Sense 17
develop
TOPIC>(noun) chess#2, chess game#1
Sense 18
develop
TOPIC>(noun) chess#2, chess game#1
Sense 21
develop
TOPIC>(noun) mathematics#1, math#1, maths#1
Domain Terms of verb develop
Familiarity of verb develop
develop used as a verb is very familiar (polysemy count =21)
Sample Sentences of verb develop
21 senses of develop
Sense 1
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 2
evolve, germinate, develop
EX: Did he develop his major works over a short period of time?
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 4
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 5
originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
*> Something ----s
Sense 6
build up, develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 7
explicate, formulate, develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 8
train, develop, prepare, educate
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 9
develop
*> It ----s that CLAUSE
Sense 10
develop
*> Something ----s
*> Somebody ----s
*> Something is ----ing PP
*> Somebody ----s PP
Sense 11
modernize, modernise, develop
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 12
develop, make grow
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Sense 13
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Something ----s somebody
*> Something ----s something
Sense 14
develop, grow
EX: Sam and Sue develop
Sense 15
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 16
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 17
develop
*> Somebody ----s
Sense 18
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 19
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Sense 20
break, recrudesce, develop
*> Something ----s
Sense 21
develop
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb develop
21 senses of develop
Sense 1
develop
> create
=> reinvent
=> develop
Sense 2
evolve, germinate, develop
> create by mental act, create mentally
=> draw, make
=> re-create
=> give birth
=> schematize
=> invent, contrive, devise, excogitate, formulate, forge
=> gestate, conceive, conceptualize, conceptualise
=> think up, think of, dream up, hatch, concoct
=> imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage
=> plan, project, contrive, design
=> design, plan
=> write
=> evolve, germinate, develop
=> program, programme
=> construct
=> construct
Sense 3
develop, acquire, evolve
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 4
grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 5
originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
> become
=> occur, come
=> root
=> form, take form, take shape, spring
=> originate, arise, rise, develop, uprise, spring up, grow
=> arise, come up, bob up
=> make
Sense 6
build up, develop
> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> relieve, alleviate, palliate, assuage
=> help, aid
=> regenerate, revitalize
=> enrich
=> build up, develop
=> turn around
=> help
=> upgrade
=> condition
=> emend
=> iron out, straighten out, put right
=> enhance
=> repair, mend, fix, bushel, doctor, furbish up, restore, touch on
=> reform
=> reform
=> fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify
=> build
=> perfect, hone
=> polish, refine, fine-tune, down
=> purify, sublimate, make pure, distill
=> fructify
=> raise, lift
=> advance
=> upgrade
=> educate
Sense 7
explicate, formulate, develop
> speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose
=> reconstruct, construct, retrace
=> explicate, formulate, develop
Sense 8
train, develop, prepare, educate
> teach, learn, instruct
=> train, develop, prepare, educate
=> indoctrinate
=> drill
=> catechize, catechise
=> reinforce, reward
=> spoonfeed
=> induct
=> mentor
=> tutor
=> unteach
=> unteach
=> ground
=> lecture, talk
=> coach, train
=> enlighten, edify
=> condition
Sense 9
develop
> happen, hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place
=> break, recrudesce, develop
=> arise, come up
=> intervene
=> transpire
=> give
=> operate
=> supervene
=> proceed, go
=> come
=> fall
=> anticipate
=> develop
=> recur, repeat
=> go off, come off, go over
=> come around, roll around
=> happen, materialize, materialise
=> happen, befall, bechance
=> befall, bechance, betide
=> concur, coincide
=> backfire, backlash, recoil
=> chance
=> break
=> fall, shine, strike
=> turn out
=> synchronize, synchronise, contemporize, contemporise
Sense 10
develop
> grow
=> hypertrophy
=> rise, go up, climb
=> enlarge
=> augment
=> vegetate
=> mushroom
=> overgrow, grow over
=> stretch
=> develop
=> expand
=> boom, prosper, thrive, get ahead, flourish, expand
=> proliferate
=> lengthen
=> ramify, branch
=> burgeon
=> root
=> rise, prove
=> expand, spread out
Sense 11
modernize, modernise, develop
> change
=> freshen, refresh, refreshen, freshen up
=> dress, get dressed
=> grow, develop, produce, get, acquire
=> regenerate
=> gel
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> creolize
=> mutate
=> have, experience
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> roll, roll up
=> glaze, glass, glass over, glaze over
=> turn, grow
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> change by reversal, turn, reverse
=> change integrity
=> change shape, change form, deform
=> form
=> change state, turn
=> adjust, conform, adapt
=> rise, jump, climb up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> dissimilate
=> change magnitude
=> modify
=> deaden
=> break
=> decay, crumble, delapidate
=> mold, mildew
=> hydrate
=> dry, dry out
=> strengthen
=> distill, distil
=> deoxidize, deoxidise, reduce
=> crack
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> oxidise, oxidize, oxidate
=> grow
=> mellow, melt, mellow out
=> soften
=> ionize, ionise
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> lighten, lighten up
=> discolor, discolour, colour, color
=> discolor
=> narrow, contract
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten
=> dim
=> crack, check, break
=> transpire
=> resume, take up
=> change surface
=> sublime, sublimate
=> cool, cool off, cool down
=> warm up
=> warm, warm up
=> transform, transmute, metamorphose
=> convert
=> dull
=> complexify, ramify
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> modernize, modernise, develop
=> stiffen
=> tighten
=> fail, go bad, give way, die, give out, conk out, go, break, break down
=> give way, yield
=> harden, indurate
=> harden, indurate
=> suffuse
=> hush
=> normalize, normalise
=> reorient
=> purify
=> digest
=> regress
=> foul
=> decalcify
=> industrialize, industrialise
=> decarboxylate
=> spot
=> receive, get, find, obtain, incur
=> acetylate, acetylize, acetylise
=> assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take
=> prim
=> capacitate
=> caseate
=> caseate
=> clinker
=> cure
=> dawn
=> salinate
=> desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise
=> shallow, shoal
=> steepen
=> superannuate
=> ulcerate
=> vitrify
=> vulcanize, vulcanise
=> pall, dull
=> die, pall, become flat
=> saponify
=> move, go, run
=> come
=> catch
=> catch on
=> develop, grow
=> fly
=> develop, acquire, evolve
=> assibilate
=> smoothen
=> turn on
=> drop
=> break into
=> deepen, change
=> concretize, concretise
=> decay
=> commute, transpose
=> introject
=> shift
=> swing
=> fall
=> fall
=> reflate
=> hydrolyze, hydrolyse
=> fold, fold up
=> gelatinize, gelatinise
=> felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat
=> recombine
=> feminize, feminise
=> obsolesce
=> plasticize, plasticise
=> recede
=> defervesce
=> incandesce
=> calcify
=> drift
=> play out
=> conjugate
=> isomerize, isomerise
=> evaporate, vaporise
=> indurate
=> gradate
=> keratinize, keratinise
=> opacify
=> mature
=> rejuvenate
=> sequester
=> transaminate
=> vesiculate
=> undulate
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> crash
=> professionalize, professionalise
=> shift
=> flip, flip out
=> gum
=> synthesize
=> come round, come around
=> promote
=> separate, divide, part
=> format, arrange
=> fall for
=> move up, rise
=> change posture
=> settle
=> collapse, fall in, cave in, give, give way, break, founder
=> solarize, solarise
=> occult
=> pass
=> leave, depart, pull up stakes
=> liberalize, liberalise
=> stratify
=> democratize, democratise
=> relax, loosen
=> reticulate
=> flocculate
=> carbonate
=> come in
=> go out
=> stagnate
=> make
=> ice up, frost over, ice over
Sense 12
develop, make grow
> change, alter, modify
=> awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
=> cause to sleep
=> affect
=> refresh, freshen, refreshen
=> inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise
=> indispose
=> cry
=> etiolate
=> brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise
=> convert
=> opalize, opalise
=> arterialize, arterialise
=> make, get
=> counterchange, transpose, interchange
=> vascularize, vascularise
=> decrepitate
=> suburbanize, suburbanise
=> revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn
=> etiolate
=> barbarize, barbarise
=> alkalinize, alkalinise
=> mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise
=> allegorize, allegorise
=> demythologize, demythologise
=> bring, land
=> coarsen
=> affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
=> alchemize, alchemise
=> alcoholize, alcoholise
=> shape, form
=> round off, round down, round out, round
=> suspend
=> sober
=> reconstruct
=> increase
=> ease up, ease off, let up
=> assimilate
=> dissimilate
=> commute, convert, exchange
=> vitalize, vitalise
=> unclutter, clear
=> activate
=> activate
=> activate, aerate
=> activate
=> inactivate, deactivate
=> deaden, blunt
=> remodel, reconstruct, redo
=> edit, redact
=> edit, cut, edit out
=> tame, chasten, subdue
=> chasten, moderate, temper
=> better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate
=> worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate
=> wet
=> dry, dry out
=> lubricate
=> strengthen, beef up, fortify
=> spike, lace, fortify
=> weaken
=> blunt
=> oxidize, oxidise, oxidate
=> unite, unify, merge
=> age
=> ripen, mature
=> antique, antiquate
=> antiquate
=> develop, make grow
=> soften
=> damage
=> ossify
=> acerbate
=> stabilize, stabilise
=> destabilize, destabilise
=> sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise
=> desensitize, desensitise
=> habituate, accustom
=> disorder, disarray
=> discolor
=> color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in
=> stain
=> hue
=> uglify
=> untune
=> adjust, set, correct
=> set
=> disqualify, unfit, indispose
=> domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame
=> widen
=> dehydrogenate
=> hydrogenate
=> oxygenize, oxygenise
=> darken
=> brighten, lighten up, lighten
=> blur, blear
=> obscure, bedim, overcloud
=> obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide
=> cook
=> slenderize, slenderise
=> crack
=> dissolve, dismiss
=> end, terminate
=> demist, defog
=> condense, concentrate, contract
=> cool, chill, cool down
=> heat, heat up
=> warm
=> boil
=> freeze
=> blister
=> switch, change over, shift
=> transpose
=> convert, change over
=> transform
=> transform
=> transform
=> transmute
=> transform, transmute, transubstantiate
=> ash
=> translate, transform
=> reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify
=> convert
=> Islamize, Islamise
=> turn back, invert, reverse
=> invert
=> customize, customise
=> personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise
=> depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify
=> sharpen
=> flatten, drop
=> disintegrate
=> magnetize, magnetise
=> demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss
=> simplify
=> complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate
=> refine
=> complicate, perplex
=> supercharge, pressurize, pressurise
=> centralize, centralise, concentrate
=> decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise
=> socialize, socialise
=> fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set
=> internationalize, internationalise
=> communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> Europeanize, Europeanise
=> bestialize, bestialise
=> Americanize, Americanise
=> Frenchify
=> civilize, civilise
=> nationalize, nationalise
=> denationalize, denationalise
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