acetify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acidify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acidify, acidulate, sour |
acidify | (verb) turn acidic | Synonyms: acetify |
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(verb) make sour or more sour | Synonyms: acetify, acidulate, sour |
aerify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: gasify, vaporise, vaporize |
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alkalify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalise, alkalize, basify |
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ammonify | (verb) treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification | - |
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amplify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: magnify |
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(verb) increase the volume of | - |
(verb) exaggerate or make bigger | Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
aurify | (verb) turn golden | - |
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(verb) transform into gold | - |
basify | (verb) turn basic and less acidic | Synonyms: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize |
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beatify | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood | - |
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(verb) make blessedly happy | - |
(verb) fill with sublime emotion | Synonyms: exalt, exhilarate, inebriate, thrill, tickle pink |
beautify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: embellish, fancify, prettify |
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(verb) make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. | Synonyms: adorn, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament |
(verb) be beautiful to look at | Synonyms: adorn, deck, decorate, embellish, grace |
calcify | (verb) turn into lime; become calcified | - |
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(verb) convert into lime | - |
(verb) become impregnated with calcium salts | - |
(verb) become inflexible and unchanging | - |
carnify | (verb) become muscular or fleshy | - |
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certify | (verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, demonstrate, evidence, manifest |
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(verb) declare legally insane | - |
(verb) guarantee payment on; of checks | - |
(verb) guarantee as meeting a certain standard | Synonyms: endorse, indorse |
(verb) authorize officially | Synonyms: licence, license |
chondrify | (verb) turn into cartilage | - |
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citify | (verb) accustom to urban ways | - |
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clarify | (verb) make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating | - |
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(verb) make clear and (more) comprehensible | Synonyms: clear up, elucidate |
classify | (verb) arrange or order by classes or categories | Synonyms: assort, class, separate, sort, sort out |
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(verb) assign to a class or kind | Synonyms: relegate |
(verb) declare unavailable, as for security reasons | - |
codify | (verb) organize into a code or system, such as a body of law | - |
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complexify | (verb) make complex | - |
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(verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: ramify |
crucify | (verb) criticize harshly or violently | Synonyms: blast, pillory, savage |
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(verb) treat cruelly | Synonyms: bedevil, dun, frustrate, rag, torment |
(verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: mortify, subdue |
(verb) kill by nailing onto a cross | - |
dandify | (verb) dress like a dandy | - |
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decalcify | (verb) remove calcium or lime from | - |
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(verb) lose calcium or calcium compounds | - |
decertify | (verb) cause to be no longer approved or accepted | Synonyms: derecognise, derecognize |
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declassify | (verb) lift the restriction on and make available again | - |
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dehumidify | (verb) make less humid | - |
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deify | (verb) exalt to the position of a God | - |
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(verb) consider as a god or godlike | - |
demulsify | (verb) break down into components | - |
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(verb) cause to demulsify | - |
demystify | (verb) make less mysterious or remove the mystery from | - |
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denazify | (verb) free from Nazi ideology or detach from Nazi allegiance | - |
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denitrify | (verb) remove nitrogen from | - |
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detoxify | (verb) treat for alcohol or drug dependence | Synonyms: detox |
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(verb) remove poison from | Synonyms: detoxicate |
devitrify | (verb) become crystalline | - |
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(verb) make (glassy materials) brittle or opaque | - |
dignify | (verb) raise the status of | - |
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(verb) confer dignity or honor upon | Synonyms: ennoble |
disqualify | (verb) make unfit or unsuitable | Synonyms: indispose, unfit |
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(verb) declare unfit | - |
disunify | (verb) break up or separate | Synonyms: break apart |
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diversify | (verb) vary in order to spread risk or to expand | Synonyms: branch out, broaden |
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(verb) make (more) diverse | - |
(verb) spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate | Synonyms: radiate |
dulcify | (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten |
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edify | (verb) make understand | Synonyms: enlighten |
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electrify | (verb) equip for use with electricity | Synonyms: wire |
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(verb) charge (a conductor) with electricity | - |
(verb) excite suddenly and intensely | - |
emulsify | (verb) form into or become an emulsion | - |
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(verb) cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion | - |
esterify | (verb) change (a compound) into an ester | - |
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etherify | (verb) change into an ether | - |
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exemplify | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: illustrate, instance |
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(verb) be typical of | Synonyms: represent |
falsify | (verb) falsify knowingly | - |
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(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: alter, interpolate |
(verb) prove false | - |
(verb) make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story | Synonyms: distort, garble, warp |
(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, fudge, manipulate, misrepresent, wangle |
fancify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, prettify |
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fortify | (verb) add alcohol to (beverages) | Synonyms: lace, spike |
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(verb) make strong or stronger | Synonyms: beef up, strengthen |
(verb) add nutrients to | - |
(verb) prepare oneself for a military confrontation | Synonyms: arm, build up, gird |
(verb) enclose by or as if by a fortification | Synonyms: fort |
fructify | (verb) produce fruit | Synonyms: set |
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(verb) become productive or fruitful | - |
(verb) make productive or fruitful | - |
gasify | (verb) turn into gas | Synonyms: aerify, vaporise, vaporize |
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gentrify | (verb) renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations | - |
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glorify | (verb) bestow glory upon | - |
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(verb) cause to seem more splendid | - |
(verb) elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration | Synonyms: spiritualize, transfigure |
(verb) praise, glorify, or honor | Synonyms: exalt, extol, laud, proclaim |
gratify | (verb) yield (to); give satisfaction to | Synonyms: indulge, pander |
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(verb) make happy or satisfied | Synonyms: satisfy |
horrify | (verb) fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised | Synonyms: alarm, appal, appall, dismay |
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humidify | (verb) make (more) humid | Synonyms: moisturise, moisturize |
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humify | (verb) convert (plant remains) into humus | - |
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identify | (verb) recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something | Synonyms: place |
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(verb) identify as in botany or biology, for example | Synonyms: describe, discover, distinguish, key, key out, name |
(verb) consider to be equal or the same | - |
(verb) conceive of as united or associated | - |
(verb) consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else | - |
(verb) give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property | Synonyms: name |
indemnify | (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: compensate, recompense, repair |
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(verb) secure against future loss, damage, or liability; give security for | - |
intensify | (verb) become more intense | Synonyms: deepen |
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(verb) make more intense, stronger, or more marked | Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten |
(verb) increase in extent or intensity | Synonyms: escalate, step up |
(verb) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark | - |
interstratify | (verb) arrange rocks in alternating strata | - |
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jellify | (verb) become jelly | - |
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(verb) make into jelly | Synonyms: jelly |
jollify | (verb) celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities | Synonyms: make happy, make merry, make whoopee, racket, revel, wassail, whoop it up |
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justify | (verb) adjust the spaces between words | - |
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(verb) show to be right by providing justification or proof | Synonyms: vindicate |
(verb) (used of God) declare innocent; absolve from the penalty of sin | - |
lapidify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: petrify |
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lenify | (verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, mollify, pacify, placate |
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lignify | (verb) convert into wood or cause to become woody | - |
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liquify | (verb) become liquid or fluid when heated | Synonyms: flux, liquefy |
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(verb) make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating | Synonyms: liquefy, liquidise, liquidize |
magnify | (verb) increase in size, volume or significance | Synonyms: amplify |
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(verb) make large | Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth | Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
metrify | (verb) convert from a non-metric to the metric system | Synonyms: metricate, metricise, metricize |
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(verb) compose in poetic meter | - |
minify | (verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, lessen |
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misidentify | (verb) identify incorrectly | Synonyms: mistake |
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modify | (verb) make less severe or harsh or extreme | - |
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(verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: qualify |
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: alter, change |
mollify | (verb) make less rigid or softer | - |
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(verb) make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else | Synonyms: moderate, season, temper |
(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, pacify, placate |
mortify | (verb) undergo necrosis | Synonyms: gangrene, necrose, sphacelate |
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(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of | Synonyms: abase, chagrin, humble, humiliate |
(verb) hold within limits and control | Synonyms: crucify, subdue |
(verb) practice self-denial of one's body and appetites | - |
mummify | (verb) dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture | Synonyms: dry up |
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(verb) remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it | - |
(verb) preserve while making lifeless | - |
mystify | (verb) make mysterious | - |
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(verb) be a mystery or bewildering to | Synonyms: amaze, baffle, beat, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, get, gravel, nonplus, perplex, pose, puzzle, stick, stupefy, vex |
nazify | (verb) cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character | - |
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nitrify | (verb) treat (soil) with nitrates | - |
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(verb) treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound | Synonyms: nitrogenise, nitrogenize |
(verb) convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria | - |
notify | (verb) inform (somebody) of something | Synonyms: advise, apprise, apprize, give notice, send word |
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nullify | (verb) make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of | Synonyms: negate, neutralise, neutralize |
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(verb) show to be invalid | Synonyms: invalidate |
(verb) declare invalid | Synonyms: annul, avoid, invalidate, quash, void |
nutrify | (verb) give nourishment to | Synonyms: aliment, nourish |
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objectify | (verb) make impersonal or present as an object | Synonyms: depersonalise, depersonalize |
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(verb) make external or objective, or give reality to | Synonyms: exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize |
opacify | (verb) become opaque | - |
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(verb) make opaque | - |
ossify | (verb) become bony | - |
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(verb) cause to become hard and bony | - |
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: petrify, rigidify |
oversimplify | (verb) simplify to an excessive degree | - |
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pacify | (verb) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location) | - |
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(verb) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of | Synonyms: appease, assuage, conciliate, gentle, gruntle, lenify, mollify, placate |
personify | (verb) attribute human qualities to something | Synonyms: personate |
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(verb) represent, as of a character on stage | Synonyms: be, embody |
(verb) invest with or as with a body; give body to | Synonyms: body |
petrify | (verb) change into stone | Synonyms: lapidify |
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(verb) cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned from fright | - |
(verb) make rigid and set into a conventional pattern | Synonyms: ossify, rigidify |
pinkify | (verb) make pink | - |
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preachify | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, sermonise, sermonize |
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prettify | (verb) make more beautiful | Synonyms: beautify, embellish, fancify |
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purify | (verb) remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation | Synonyms: distil, distill, make pure, sublimate |
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(verb) make pure or free from sin or guilt | Synonyms: purge, sanctify |
(verb) become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin | - |
qualify | (verb) make fit or prepared | Synonyms: dispose |
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(verb) add a modifier to a constituent | Synonyms: modify |
(verb) make more specific | - |
(verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement | Synonyms: condition, specify, stipulate |
(verb) describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of | Synonyms: characterise, characterize |
(verb) pronounce fit or able | - |
(verb) prove capable or fit; meet requirements | Synonyms: measure up |
quantify | (verb) express as a number or measure or quantity | Synonyms: measure |
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(verb) use as a quantifier | - |
ramify | (verb) divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork | Synonyms: branch, fork, furcate, separate |
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(verb) grow and send out branches or branch-like structures | Synonyms: branch |
(verb) have or develop complicating consequences | Synonyms: complexify |
rarify | (verb) make more complex, intricate, or richer | Synonyms: complicate, elaborate, refine |
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ratify | (verb) approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation | Synonyms: sign |
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reclassify | (verb) classify anew, change the previous classification | - |
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rectify | (verb) set straight or right | Synonyms: amend, remediate, remedy, repair |
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(verb) make right or correct | Synonyms: correct, right |
(verb) reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities | Synonyms: refine |
(verb) convert into direct current | - |
(verb) bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one | Synonyms: reclaim, reform, regenerate |
(verb) determine the length of | - |
reify | (verb) consider an abstract concept to be real | - |
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reunify | (verb) unify again, as of a country | Synonyms: reunite |
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revivify | (verb) give new life or energy to | Synonyms: animate, quicken, reanimate, recreate, renovate, repair, revive, vivify |
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