| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become different |
Synonyms: |
accommodate, adapt, adjust, alter, alternate, commute, convert, diminish, diverge, diversify, evolve, fluctuate, make innovations, make over, merge, metamorphose, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, naturalize, recondition, redo, reduce, reform, regenerate, remake, remodel, renovate, reorganize, replace, resolve, restyle, revolutionize, shape, shift, substitute, tamper with, temper, transfigure, transform, translate, transmute, transpose, turn, vacillate, vary, veer, warp |
Antonyms: |
continue, hold, keep, persist, remain, stay |
| Main Entry: | damage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause injury, loss |
Synonyms: |
abuse, bang up, batter, bleach, blight, break, burn, contaminate, corrode, corrupt, crack, cripple, deface, defile, dirty, discolor, disfigure, disintegrate, dismantle, fade, gnaw, harm, hurt, impair, incapacitate, infect, injure, lacerate, maim, maltreat, mangle, mar, mutilate, pollute, ravage, rot, ruin, rust, scathe, scorch, scratch, smash, split, spoil, stab, stain, tamper with, tarnish, tear, undermine, vitiate, weaken, wear away, wound, wreak havoc on, wreck, wrong |
Antonyms: |
benefit, bless, enhance, favor, fix, improve, mend, perfect, repair |
| Main Entry: | doctor |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | adulterate, pervert |
Synonyms: |
add to, alter, change, cut, deacon, debase, dilute, disguise, dope up, falsify, fudge, gloss, load, misrepresent, mix with, sophisticate, spike*, tamper with, water down, weight |
| Notes: | the word doctor is derived from Latin doctus 'having been taught; learned' (from docere 'to teach'); physician comes from Latin physica 'natural science; physics' |
Antonyms: |
clean, purify |
| Main Entry: | falsify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | alter, misrepresent |
Synonyms: |
adulterate, belie, change, color, con, contort, contradict, contravene, cook, counterfeit, deacon, deceive, deny, distort, doctor, dress up, embroider, equivocate, exaggerate, fake, fake it, fib, forge, four-flush, frame up, garble, gloss, lie, misquote, misstate, palter, pervert, phony up, prevaricate, promote, put on an act, salt, tamper with, traverse, trump up, twist, warp |
| Main Entry: | fix |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | manipulate, influence an event |
Synonyms: |
bribe, buy, buy off, corrupt, fiddle, have, lubricate, maneuver, pull strings, reach, square, suborn, tamper with |
Antonyms: |
play fair |
| Main Entry: | garble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mix up, misrepresent |
Synonyms: |
belie, color, confuse, corrupt, distort, doctor, falsify, jumble, misinterpret, mislead, misquote, misstate, mutilate, obscure, pervert, slant, tamper with, twist, warp |
Antonyms: |
decipher, order, pronounce, represent, translate, unscramble |
| Main Entry: | have |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cheat, trick |
Synonyms: |
buy off, deceive, dupe*, fix*, fool, outfox, outmaneuver, outsmart, outwit, overreach, swindle, take in*, tamper with, undo* |
| Main Entry: | juggle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead, falsify; handle several things at once |
Synonyms: |
alter, beguile, betray, bluff, change, conjure, delude, disguise, doctor*, double-cross, fix, humbug, illude, maneuver, manipulate, misrepresent, modify, perform magic, prestidigitate, shuffle, take in, tamper with, trim |
Antonyms: |
be honest |
| Main Entry: | rig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | arrange for certain outcome |
Synonyms: |
doctor, engineer, fake, falsify, fiddle with, fix, gerrymander, juggle, manipulate, tamper with, trump up |
| Main Entry: | square |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pay off, satisfy |
Synonyms: |
balance, bribe, buy, buy off, clear, clear off, clear up, corrupt, discharge, fix, have, liquidate, make even, pay, pay up, quit, rig, settle, tamper with |
Antonyms: |
owe |