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- verb undergo a transformation or a change of position or action
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- Frenchify
- acetify
- acidify
- alkalify
- alkalise
- alkalize
- ameliorate
- apparel
- arouse
- awake
- awaken
- basify
- be born
- become
- better
- blackout
- boil
- break
- break loose
- burn
- burst forth
- buy the farm
- calcify
- calm
- calm down
- carbonise
- carbonize
- carburise
- carburize
- carnify
- cash in one's chips
- catalyse
- catalyze
- catch fire
- chill
- chill out
- choke
- chondrify
- citrate
- clabber
- close
- clot
- clothe
- cloud over
- coagulate
- coke
- combust
- come alive
- come to
- conceive
- concentrate
- conflagrate
- conk
- cool
- cool down
- cool it
- cool off
- croak
- cross-fertilise
- cross-fertilize
- curdle
- decease
- decline
- decompress
- denitrify
- die
- discharge
- disengage
- dissolve
- dress
- drop dead
- emaciate
- emancipate
- empty
- emulsify
- enclothe
- equilibrate
- erupt
- esterify
- etherify
- exit
- expire
- explode
- fade away
- fade out
- fall
- ferment
- fill
- fill up
- fit out
- flourish
- fluctuate
- fly high
- freeze
- gain
- garb
- garment
- get
- get into
- get worse
- give-up the ghost
- go
- habilitate
- heat
- heat up
- homogenise
- homogenize
- hot up
- ignite
- improve
- inspissate
- integrate
- ionise
- ionize
- kick the bucket
- liberate
- liquefy
- loosen up
- lose weight
- meliorate
- melt off
- open
- open up
- ossify
- overgrow
- pass
- pass away
- pass out
- perish
- pop off
- precipitate
- prosper
- put on
- raiment
- react
- reduce
- relapse
- relax
- resuscitate
- revive
- secularise
- secularize
- settle down
- shut
- simmer down
- slenderize
- slim
- slim down
- slow down
- snuff it
- solvate
- sorb
- sour
- take fire
- take-up
- tangle with
- tense
- tense up
- thicken
- thin
- thrive
- thrombose
- tog
- turn
- unbend
- unwind
- wake
- wake up
- waken
- work
- worsen
- zonk out
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