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CHANGE INTEGRITY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Change in physical make-up

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "change integrity" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change integrity"):

carve up; dissever; divide; separate; split; split up (separate into parts or portions)

break down; collapse; crumble; crumple; tumble (fall apart)

separate (divide into components or constituents)

jellify (become jelly)

jellify; jelly (make into jelly)

demulsify (break down into components)

break up; dissolve; resolve (cause to go into a solution)

crystalise; crystalize; crystallise; crystallize (cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form)

solidify (make solid or more solid; cause to solidify)

solidify (become solid)

flux; liquefy; liquify (become liquid or fluid when heated)

aerify; gasify; vaporise; vaporize (turn into gas)

inspissate; thicken (make viscous or dense)

decay; decompose; disintegrate (lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current)

disintegrate (break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity)

blend; coalesce; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix (mix together different elements)

burn; incinerate (cause to undergo combustion)

evaporate; vaporise; vaporize (lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue)

condense (cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid)

pasteurise; pasteurize (heat food in order to kill harmful microorganisms)

break; come apart; fall apart; separate; split up (become separated into pieces or fragments)

break up; disperse; scatter (cause to separate)

cook (transform and make suitable for consumption by heating)

blow up; detonate; explode; set off (cause to burst with a violent release of energy)

burst; explode (burst outward, usually with noise)

polymerise; polymerize (cause (a compound) to polymerize)

polymerise; polymerize (undergo polymerization)

reform (break up the molecules of)

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