Synonyms of the word

deaden

• v. (transitive) To render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
• v. (intransitive) To become less lively; to diminish (by itself).
• v. (transitive) To make soundproof.

alter

• v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
• v. (intransitive) To become different.
• v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
• v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

blunt

• adj. Having a thick edge or point; not sharp.
• adj. Dull in understanding; slow of discernment; opposed to acute.
• adj. Abrupt in address; plain; unceremonious; wanting the forms of civility; rough in manners or speech.
• adj. Hard to impress or penetrate.
• adj. Slow or deficient in feeling: insensitive.
• n. A fencer's practice foil with a soft tip.
• n. A short needle with a strong point.
• n. (smoking) A marijuana cigar.
• n. (Britain, slang, archaic, uncountable) money.
• n. A playboating move resembling a cartwheel performed on a wave.
• v. To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt.
• v. (figuratively) To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of.

break

• v. (transitive, intransitive) To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that…
• v. (transitive) To divide (something, often money) into smaller units.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of.
• v. (intransitive) To be crushed, or overwhelmed with sorrow or grief.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt; to destroy the continuity of; to dissolve or terminate.
• v. (transitive) To ruin financially.
• v. (transitive) To violate, to not adhere to.
• v. (intransitive, of a fever) To pass the most dangerous part of the illness; to go down, temperaturewise.
• v. (intransitive, of a storm or spell of weather) To end.
• v. (transitive, gaming slang) To design or use a powerful (yet legal) strategy that unbalances the game in…
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To stop, or to cause to stop, functioning properly or altogether.
• v. (transitive) To cause (a barrier) to no longer bar.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce.
• v. (intransitive, of a wave of water) To collapse into surf, after arriving in shallow water.
• v. (intransitive) To burst forth; to make its way; to come into view.
• v. (intransitive) To interrupt or cease one's work or occupation temporarily.
• v. (transitive) To interrupt (a fall) by inserting something so that the falling object does not (immediately)…
• v. (transitive, ergative) To disclose or make known an item of news, etc.
• v. (intransitive, of morning) To arrive.
• v. (intransitive, of a sound) To become audible suddenly.
• v. (transitive) To change a steady state abruptly.
• v. (copulative, informal) To suddenly become.
• v. (intransitive) Of a voice, to alter in type: in men generally to go up, in women sometimes to go down;…
• v. (transitive) To surpass or do better than (a specific number), to do better than (a record), setting a…
• v. (sports and games).
• v. (transitive, military, most often in the passive tense) To demote, to reduce the military rank of.
• v. (transitive) To end (a connection), to disconnect.
• v. (intransitive, of an emulsion) To demulsify.
• v. (intransitive, sports) To counter-attack.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To lay open, as a purpose; to disclose, divulge, or communicate.
• v. (intransitive) To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To fail in business; to become bankrupt.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the strength, firmness, or consistency of.
• v. (transitive) To destroy the official character and standing of; to cashier; to dismiss.
• v. (intransitive) To make an abrupt or sudden change; to change the gait.
• v. (intransitive, archaic) To fall out; to terminate friendship.
• v. (of a horse) To tame, to horsebreak.
• n. An instance of breaking something into two pieces.
• n. A physical space that opens up in something or between two things.
• n. A rest or pause, usually from work. Often the mid-morning breaktime in the school day.
• n. A short holiday.
• n. A temporary split with a romantic partner.
• n. An interval or intermission between two parts of a performance, for example a theatre show, broadcast,…
• n. A significant change in circumstance, attitude, perception, or focus of attention.
• n. The beginning (of the morning).
• n. An act of escaping.
• n. (computing) The separation between lines or paragraphs of a written text.
• n. (Britain, weather) A change, particularly the end of a spell of persistent good or bad weather.
• n. (sports and games).
• n. (dated) A large four-wheeled carriage, having a straight body and calash top, with the driver's seat in…
• n. (equitation) A sharp bit or snaffle.
• n. (music) A short section of music, often between verses, in which some performers stop while others continue.
• n. (music) The point in the musical scale at which a woodwind instrument is designed to overblow, that is,…
• n. (music) A section of extended repetition of the percussion break to a song, created by a hip-hop DJ as…

change

• v. (intransitive) To become something different.
• v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
• v. (transitive) To replace.
• v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
• v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
• v. (archaic) To exchange.
• v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
• n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
• n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
• n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
• n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
• n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
• n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
• n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
• n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
• n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
• n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

convert

• n. A person who has converted to a religion.
• n. A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.
• v. (transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.
• v. (transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.
• v. (transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense…
• v. (transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.
• v. (transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.
• v. (transitive) To express (a unit of measure) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by…
• v. (transitive, law) To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, rugby football) To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.
• v. (soccer) To score (a penalty).
• v. (intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
• v. (intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3).
• v. (intransitive) To become converted.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to turn; to turn.
• v. (transitive, logic) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first…
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To turn into another language; to translate.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs…

damp

• adj. Being in a state between dry and wet; moderately wet; moist.
• adj. (figuratively) despondent; dispirited, downcast.
• n. Moisture; humidity; dampness.
• n. (archaic) Fog; fogginess; vapor.
• n. (archaic) Dejection or depression.
• n. (archaic or historical, mining) A gaseous product, formed in coal mines, old wells, pits, etc.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To dampen; to render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To put out, as fire; to depress or deject; to deaden; to cloud; to check or restrain,…
• v. (transitive) To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to…

dampen

• v. (transitive) To make damp or moist; to make slightly wet.
• v. (transitive) To depress; to check; to make dull; to lessen.
• v. (intransitive) To become damp; to deaden.

girdle

• n. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
• n. A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually…
• n. The zodiac; also, the equator.
• n. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
• n. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
• n. The clitellum of an earthworm.
• n. (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle.
• v. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
• v. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

incise

• v. to cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave.

modify

• v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
• v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

retard

• n. Retardation; delay.
• n. (slang, offensive, dated) A person with mental retardation.
• n. (slang, offensive) A stupid person, or one who is slow to learn.
• v. (transitive) To keep delaying; to continue to hinder; to prevent from progress; to render more slow in…
• v. (transitive) To put off; to postpone.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be slow or dilatory to perform (something).
• v. (intransitive) To decelerate; to slow down.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To stay back.

soften

• v. (transitive) To make something soft or softer.
• v. (transitive) To undermine the morale of someone (often soften up).
• v. (transitive) To make less harsh.
• v. (intransitive) To become soft or softer.

weaken

• v. (transitive) To make weaker.
• v. (intransitive) To become weaker.