become+different

  • 101dissimilate — v. become different, become unlike; make dissimilar sounds; omit two related sounds in a word (Phonetics) …

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  • 102dissimilated — v. become different, become unlike; make dissimilar sounds; omit two related sounds in a word (Phonetics) …

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  • 103dissimilates — v. become different, become unlike; make dissimilar sounds; omit two related sounds in a word (Phonetics) …

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  • 104dissimilating — v. become different, become unlike; make dissimilar sounds; omit two related sounds in a word (Phonetics) …

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  • 105diverge — verb (I) 1 if two lines or paths diverge, they go in different directions 2 if two things diverge, they become different although they used to be the same: Our business interests diverged and we had to sell the company. opposite converge …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 106alter — verb 1) Eliot was persuaded to alter the opening passage to his sermon Syn: change, make changes to, make different, make alterations to, adjust, make adjustments to, adapt, amend, modify, revise, revamp, rework, redo, refine, vary, transform;… …

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  • 107alter */*/ — UK [ˈɔːltə(r)] / US [ˈɔltər] verb Word forms alter : present tense I/you/we/they alter he/she/it alters present participle altering past tense altered past participle altered 1) a) [transitive] to make something or someone different He altered… …

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  • 108alter — al•ter [[t]ˈɔl tər[/t]] v. t. 1) to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will[/ex] 2) vet to castrate or spay 3) to change; become different or modified • Etymology:… …

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  • 109alter — /ˈɔltə / (say awltuh), /ˈɒl / (say ol ) verb (t) 1. to make different in some particular; modify. 2. Colloquial to castrate or spay. –verb (i) 3. to become different in some respect. –noun 4. → alter ego (def. 3). {French altérer, from Latin… …

  • 110change — [n1] something made different; alteration about face*, addition, adjustment, advance, break, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversification, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis,… …

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