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additive |
a substance added in small amounts to another to improve, preserve, or otherwise alter it. [1/2 definitions] |
add-on |
in computing, a supplementary program or piece of code written to alter, enhance, or extend the behavior of a main program. [1/2 definitions] |
alterative |
tending to alter or cause alteration. |
brainwash |
to alter a person's ideas or beliefs by forceful means such as physical torture or psychological stress. [2/4 definitions] |
budge |
to alter one's opinion (usu. used negatively). [2/4 definitions] |
bushel2 |
to repair or alter (clothes). |
cancel |
to mark or otherwise alter (a check, stamp, or the like) so as to prevent reuse. [1/5 definitions] |
change |
to make different; alter the content or form of. [1/10 definitions] |
checker1 |
to alter by adding different colors; variegate. [1/4 definitions] |
chemical additive |
an artificial substance added in small amounts to another to improve, preserve, or otherwise alter it. |
classicize |
to make, adapt, or alter (something) in imitation of a classical style. |
color |
to alter the tone or character of. [1/12 definitions] |
deform |
to alter the shape of, as by pressure; transform. [1/4 definitions] |
drumbone |
a musical instrument requiring two or three players that is made of joined sections of plastic pipe, two of which slide to alter the pitch of sounds made by beating on the pipe with drumsticks. The drumbone was introduced by the Blue Man Group. |
falsify |
to make, or alter so as to make, untrue or inaccurate. [1/3 definitions] |
inflect |
in grammar, to alter the form of (a word) by inflection. [1/4 definitions] |
intransigence |
refusal to alter one's ideas or position in response to the wishes of others. |
intransigent |
refusing to alter an idea or a position in response to others' wishes; uncompromising. [1/2 definitions] |
irreversible |
impossible to reverse, turn back, or alter. |
juggle |
to alter or manipulate for the purpose of deception. [1/8 definitions] |
landscape |
to alter the appearance of a piece of land by changing its contours, planting trees and shrubs, and the like. [1/5 definitions] |
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