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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | switch, fluctuate |
| Synonyms: | about-face, alter, blow hot and cold, bottom out, budge, change, change gears, cook*, deviate, dial back, dislocate, displace, disturb, do up, drift, exchange, fault, flip-flop, hem and haw, move, move around, move over, rearrange, recalibrate, relocate, remove, replace, reposition, ship, shuffle, slip, stir, substitute, swap places, swerve, switch over, tack, transfer, transmogrify, transpose, turn, turn around, turn the corner, turn the tables, vacillate, vary, veer, waffle, yo-yo |
| Antonyms: | deactivate, remain, stagnate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gone |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not present, no longer in existence |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, absent, astray, away, burned up, consumed, dead, decamped, deceased, defunct, departed, disappeared, disintegrated, displaced, dissipated, dissolved, done, down the drain, dried up, elapsed, ended, extinct, finished, flown, lacking, left, lost, missing, moved, no more, nonextant, not a sign of, not here, out the window, over, passed, past, quit, removed, retired, run-off, shifted, spent, split, taken a powder, taken leave, transferred, traveling, turned to dust, vanished, withdrawn |
| Antonyms: | around, current, existing, present, working |
| Main Entry: | changed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | altered |
| Synonyms: | adapted, adjusted, aged, amended, conditioned, deteriorated, developed, done over, edited, limited, matured, modernized, modified, moved, mutated, qualified, reconditioned, redone, reformed, remodeled, renovated, reorganized, reprogrammed, rescheduled, revised, shifted |
| Antonyms: | unchanged, unmodified, unvaried |
| Main Entry: | moved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | transported |
| Synonyms: | carried, changed, conveyed, displaced, dragged, driven, elevated, flown, hauled, lifted, lowered, lugged, pushed, reallocated, reassigned, replaced, sent, shifted, transferred, trucked |
| Main Entry: | transferred |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moved |
| Synonyms: | conveyed, reassigned, relocated, removed, restationed, sent, shifted, shipped, transmitted, transplanted, transported |
| Antonyms: | fixed, stationed |
| Main Entry: | transported |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | moved |
| Synonyms: | carried, conveyed, shifted, transferred |
| Main Entry: | alter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | change |
| Synonyms: | adapt, adjust, amend, change, convert, cook, correct mid-course, develop, dial back, diversify, doctor, fine tune, make different, metamorphose, modify, mutate, phony up, recalibrate, recast, reconstruct, refashion, reform, remodel, renovate, reshape, revamp, revise, shift, transform, transmute, turn, vary |
| Antonyms: | continue, fix, keep, let stand, maintain, preserve, remain, retain, sustain |
| Main Entry: | alternate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take turns, change back and forth |
| Synonyms: | act reciprocally, alter, blow hot and cold, change, come and go, exchange, fill in for, fluctuate, follow, follow in turn, interchange, intersperse, oscillate, relieve, rotate, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally, substitute, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, yo-yo |
| Notes: | alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things' |
| Antonyms: | continue |
| Main Entry: | become |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | evolve into |
| Synonyms: | alter to, assume form of, be converted to, be reduced to, be reformed, be remodeled, be transformed into, change into, come, come to be, convert, develop into, emerge as, eventually be, grow into, incline, mature, metamorphose, pass into, ripen into, shift, turn into, turn out, wax |
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