Words that rhyme with torrefy

v 1: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten] 2: turn acidic; "the solution acetified" [syn: acidify, acetify] [ant: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize, basify]

v 1: make sour or more sour [syn: sour, acidify, acidulate, acetify] [ant: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate, sweeten] 2: turn acidic; "the solution acetified" [syn: acidify, acetify] [ant: alkalify, alkalise, alkalize, basify]

v 1: turn basic and less acidic; "the solution alkalized" [syn: alkalize, alkalise, alkalify, basify] [ant: acetify, acidify]

v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify, amplify] 2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate] 3: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: inflate, blow up, expand, amplify] 4: increase the volume of; "amplify sound"

v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]

v 1: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify] 2: make blessedly happy 3: declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood; "On Sunday, the martyr will be beatified by the Vatican"

v 1: make more beautiful [syn: fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify] [ant: uglify] 2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautify] 3: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.; "Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify]

n 1: an advantageous purchase; "she got a bargain at the auction"; "the stock was a real buy at that price" [syn: bargain, buy, steal] v 1: obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; "She buys for the big department store" [syn: buy, purchase] [ant: sell] 2: make illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence; "This judge can be bought" [syn: bribe, corrupt, buy, grease one's palms] 3: be worth or be capable of buying; "This sum will buy you a ride on the train" 4: acquire by trade or sacrifice or exchange; "She wanted to buy his love with her dedication to him and his work" 5: accept as true; "I can't buy this story"

adv 1: so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" [syn: by, past] 2: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: aside, by, away]

n 1: you advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent; "he had a bye in the first round" [syn: bye, pass] 2: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]

v 1: become impregnated with calcium salts [ant: decalcify] 2: become inflexible and unchanging; "Old folks can calcify" 3: turn into lime; become calcified; "The rock calcified over the centuries" 4: convert into lime; "the salts calcified the rock"

v 1: provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence] 2: guarantee payment on; of checks 3: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize] 4: guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: certify, endorse, indorse] 5: declare legally insane

v 1: make clear and (more) comprehensible; "clarify the mystery surrounding her death" [syn: clarify, clear up, elucidate] [ant: obfuscate] 2: make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating; "clarify the butter"; "clarify beer"

v 1: arrange or order by classes or categories; "How would you classify these pottery shards--are they prehistoric?" [syn: classify, class, sort, assort, sort out, separate] 2: declare unavailable, as for security reasons; "Classify these documents" [ant: declassify] 3: assign to a class or kind; "How should algae be classified?"; "People argue about how to relegate certain mushrooms" [syn: relegate, classify]

v 1: organize into a code or system, such as a body of law; "Hammurabi codified the laws"

v 1: kill by nailing onto a cross; "Jesus Christ was crucified" 2: treat cruelly; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" [syn: torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate] 3: hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify] 4: criticize harshly or violently; "The press savaged the new President"; "The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage" [syn: savage, blast, pillory, crucify]

n 1: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation] 2: a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate); "a cry of rage"; "a yell of pain" [syn: cry, yell] 3: a slogan used to rally support for a cause; "a cry to arms"; "our watchword will be `democracy'" [syn: war cry, rallying cry, battle cry, cry, watchword] 4: a fit of weeping; "had a good cry" 5: the characteristic utterance of an animal; "animal cries filled the night" v 1: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 2: shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain; "She cried bitterly when she heard the news of his death"; "The girl in the wheelchair wept with frustration when she could not get up the stairs" [syn: cry, weep] [ant: express joy, express mirth, laugh] 3: utter aloud; often with surprise, horror, or joy; "`I won!' he exclaimed"; "`Help!' she cried"; "`I'm here,' the mother shouted when she saw her child looking lost" [syn: exclaim, cry, cry out, outcry, call out, shout] 4: proclaim or announce in public; "before we had newspapers, a town crier would cry the news"; "He cried his merchandise in the market square" [syn: cry, blazon out] 5: demand immediate action; "This situation is crying for attention" 6: utter a characteristic sound; "The cat was crying" 7: bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep"

v 1: dress like a dandy

v 1: lose calcium or calcium compounds 2: remove calcium or lime from; "decalcify the rock" [ant: calcify]

v 1: cause to be no longer approved or accepted; "Carter derecognized Taiwan in 1979 after the U.S. recognized the People's Republic of China" [syn: decertify, derecognize, derecognise] [ant: certify, licence, license]

v 1: lift the restriction on and make available again; "reclassify the documents" [ant: classify]

v 1: make less humid; "The air conditioner dehumidifies the air in the summer" [ant: humidify, moisturise, moisturize]

v 1: consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success" 2: exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"

v 1: make less mysterious or remove the mystery from; "let's demystify the event by explaining what it is all about" [ant: mystify]

v 1: remove nitrogen from; "Denitrify the soil" [ant: nitrify]

v 1: remove poison from; "detoxify the soil" [syn: detoxify, detoxicate] 2: treat for alcohol or drug dependence; "He was detoxified in the clinic" [syn: detox, detoxify]

v 1: confer dignity or honor upon; "He was dignified with a title" [syn: ennoble, dignify] 2: raise the status of; "I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer"

v 1: make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you" [syn: disqualify, unfit, indispose] [ant: dispose, qualify] 2: declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete" [ant: qualify]

v 1: make (more) diverse; "diversify a course of study" 2: spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified" [syn: diversify, radiate] 3: vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified" [syn: diversify, branch out, broaden] [ant: narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize]

adj 1: free from liquid or moisture; lacking natural or normal moisture or depleted of water; or no longer wet; "dry land"; "dry clothes"; "a dry climate"; "dry splintery boards"; "a dry river bed"; "the paint is dry" [ant: wet] 2: humorously sarcastic or mocking; "dry humor"; "an ironic remark often conveys an intended meaning obliquely"; "an ironic novel"; "an ironical smile"; "with a wry Scottish wit" [syn: dry, ironic, ironical, wry] 3: lacking moisture or volatile components; "dry paint" [ant: wet] 4: opposed to or prohibiting the production and sale of alcoholic beverages; "the dry vote led by preachers and bootleggers"; "a dry state" [ant: wet] 5: not producing milk; "a dry cow" [ant: lactating, wet] 6: (of liquor) having a low residual sugar content because of decomposition of sugar during fermentation; "a dry white burgundy"; "a dry Bordeaux" [ant: sweet] 7: without a mucous or watery discharge; "a dry cough"; "that rare thing in the wintertime; a small child with a dry nose" [ant: phlegmy] 8: not shedding tears; "dry sobs"; "with dry eyes" 9: lacking interest or stimulation; dull and lifeless; "a dry book"; "a dry lecture filled with trivial details"; "dull and juiceless as only book knowledge can be when it is unrelated to...life"- John Mason Brown [syn: dry, juiceless] 10: used of solid substances in contrast with liquid ones; "dry weight" 11: unproductive especially of the expected results; "a dry run"; "a mind dry of new ideas" 12: having no adornment or coloration; "dry facts"; "rattled off the facts in a dry mechanical manner" 13: (of food) eaten without a spread or sauce or other garnish; "dry toast"; "dry meat" 14: having a large proportion of strong liquor; "a very dry martini is almost straight gin" 15: lacking warmth or emotional involvement; "a dry greeting"; "a dry reading of the lines"; "a dry critique" 16: practicing complete abstinence from alcoholic beverages; "he's been dry for ten years"; "no thank you; I happen to be teetotal" [syn: dry, teetotal] n 1: a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages [syn: dry, prohibitionist] v 1: remove the moisture from and make dry; "dry clothes"; "dry hair" [syn: dry, dry out] [ant: wet] 2: become dry or drier; "The laundry dries in the sun" [syn: dry, dry out]

v 1: make sweeter in taste [syn: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate] [ant: acetify, acidify, acidulate, sour]

v 1: make understand; "Can you enlighten me--I don't understand this proposal" [syn: enlighten, edify]

v 1: excite suddenly and intensely; "The news electrified us" 2: charge (a conductor) with electricity 3: equip for use with electricity; "electrify an appliance" [syn: electrify, wire]

v 1: cause to become an emulsion; make into an emulsion [ant: demulsify] 2: form into or become an emulsion; "The solution emulsified" [ant: demulsify]

v 1: be characteristic of; "This compositional style is exemplified by this fugue" [syn: exemplify, represent] 2: clarify by giving an example of [syn: exemplify, illustrate, instance]

v 1: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story [syn: falsify, distort, garble, warp] 2: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 3: prove false; "Falsify a claim" 4: falsify knowingly; "She falsified the records" [ant: correct, rectify, right] 5: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify]

adj 1: (British informal) not to be deceived or hoodwinked n 1: two-winged insects characterized by active flight 2: flap consisting of a piece of canvas that can be drawn back to provide entrance to a tent [syn: tent-fly, rainfly, fly sheet, fly, tent flap] 3: an opening in a garment that is closed by a zipper or by buttons concealed under a fold of cloth [syn: fly, fly front] 4: (baseball) a hit that flies up in the air [syn: fly, fly ball] 5: fisherman's lure consisting of a fishhook decorated to look like an insect v 1: travel through the air; be airborne; "Man cannot fly" [syn: fly, wing] 2: move quickly or suddenly; "He flew about the place" 3: operate an airplane; "The pilot flew to Cuba" [syn: fly, aviate, pilot] 4: transport by aeroplane; "We fly flowers from the Caribbean to North America" 5: cause to fly or float; "fly a kite" 6: be dispersed or disseminated; "Rumors and accusations are flying" 7: change quickly from one emotional state to another; "fly into a rage" 8: pass away rapidly; "Time flies like an arrow"; "Time fleeing beneath him" [syn: fly, fell, vanish] 9: travel in an airplane; "she is flying to Cincinnati tonight"; "Are we driving or flying?" 10: display in the air or cause to float; "fly a kite"; "All nations fly their flags in front of the U.N." 11: run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn: flee, fly, take flight] 12: travel over (an area of land or sea) in an aircraft; "Lindbergh was the first to fly the Atlantic" 13: hit a fly 14: decrease rapidly and disappear; "the money vanished in las Vegas"; "all my stock assets have vaporized" [syn: vanish, fly, vaporize]

v 1: make strong or stronger; "This exercise will strengthen your upper body"; "strengthen the relations between the two countries" [syn: strengthen, beef up, fortify] [ant: weaken] 2: enclose by or as if by a fortification [syn: fortify, fort] 3: prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border" [syn: arm, build up, fortify, gird] [ant: demilitarise, demilitarize, disarm] 4: add nutrients to; "fortified milk" 5: add alcohol to (beverages); "the punch is spiked!" [syn: spike, lace, fortify]

v 1: become productive or fruitful; "The seeds fructified" 2: make productive or fruitful; "The earth that he fructified" 3: bear fruit; "the apple trees fructify" [syn: fructify, set]

n 1: English painter and art critic (1866-1934) [syn: Fry, Roger Fry, Roger Eliot Fry] 2: English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) [syn: Fry, Christopher Fry] 3: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling] v 1: be excessively hot; "If the children stay out on the beach for another hour, they'll be fried" 2: cook on a hot surface using fat; "fry the pancakes" 3: kill by electrocution, as in the electric chair; "The serial killer was electrocuted" [syn: electrocute, fry]

v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim] 2: bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic" 3: elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration [syn: transfigure, glorify, spiritualize] 4: cause to seem more splendid; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"

v 1: make happy or satisfied [syn: satisfy, gratify] [ant: dissatisfy] 2: yield (to); give satisfaction to [syn: gratify, pander, indulge]

n 1: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat, hombre, bozo] 2: an effigy of Guy Fawkes that is burned on a bonfire on Guy Fawkes Day 3: a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) [syn: guy, guy cable, guy wire, guy rope] v 1: subject to laughter or ridicule; "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"; "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"; "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday" [syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun] 2: steady or support with a guy wire or cable; "The Italians guyed the Tower of Pisa to prevent it from collapsing"

v 1: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify]

v 1: make (more) humid; "We have a machine that humidifies the air in the house" [syn: humidify, moisturize, moisturise] [ant: dehumidify]

v 1: recognize as being; establish the identity of someone or something; "She identified the man on the 'wanted' poster" [syn: identify, place] 2: give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property; "Many senators were named in connection with the scandal"; "The almanac identifies the auspicious months" [syn: name, identify] 3: consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else; "He identified with the refugees" 4: conceive of as united or associated; "Sex activity is closely identified with the hypothalamus" 5: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name] 6: consider to be equal or the same; "He identified his brother as one of the fugitives"

v 1: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: escalate, intensify, step up] [ant: de-escalate, step down, weaken] 2: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen] 3: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: intensify, deepen] 4: make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

v 1: celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]

v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant] 2: show to be right by providing justification or proof; "vindicate a claim" [syn: justify, vindicate] 3: defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success" [syn: apologize, apologise, excuse, justify, rationalize, rationalise] 4: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" [syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault] 5: adjust the spaces between words; "justify the margins"

v 1: become liquid; "The garden air overnight liquefied into a morning dew" 2: make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating; "liquefy the silver" [syn: liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise] 3: become liquid or fluid when heated; "the frozen fat liquefied" [syn: liquefy, flux, liquify]

v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify, amplify] 2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate] 3: make large; "blow up an image" [syn: blow up, enlarge, magnify] [ant: reduce, scale down]

v 1: make smaller; "He decreased his staff" [syn: decrease, lessen, minify] [ant: increase]

v 1: identify incorrectly; "Don't mistake her for her twin sister" [syn: mistake, misidentify]

v 1: make less severe or harsh or extreme; "please modify this letter to make it more polite"; "he modified his views on same-gender marriage" 2: add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify, qualify] 3: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" [syn: change, alter, modify]

v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate; "she tempered her criticism" [syn: temper, season, mollify] 3: make less rigid or softer

v 1: practice self-denial of one's body and appetites 2: hold within limits and control; "subdue one's appetites"; "mortify the flesh" [syn: mortify, subdue, crucify] 3: cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of; "He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss" [syn: humiliate, mortify, chagrin, humble, abase] 4: undergo necrosis; "the tissue around the wound necrosed" [syn: necrose, gangrene, mortify, sphacelate]

v 1: preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of" 2: remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs" 3: dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found" [syn: mummify, dry up]

v 1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 2: make mysterious; "mystify the story" [ant: demystify]

v 1: convert into nitric acid, nitrous acid, or nitrate, especially with the action of nitrobacteria 2: treat with nitrogen or a nitrogen compound [syn: nitrify, nitrogenize, nitrogenise] 3: treat (soil) with nitrates [ant: denitrify]

v 1: inform (somebody) of something; "I advised him that the rent was due" [syn: advise, notify, give notice, send word, apprise, apprize]

v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate] 2: show to be invalid [syn: invalidate, nullify] [ant: validate] 3: make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of; "Her optimism neutralizes his gloom"; "This action will negate the effect of my efforts" [syn: neutralize, neutralise, nullify, negate]

v 1: make external or objective, or give reality to; "language externalizes our thoughts" [syn: exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify] 2: make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women" [syn: depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify] [ant: individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize]

v 1: become bony; "The tissue ossified" 2: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify] 3: cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"

v 1: simplify to an excessive degree; "Don't oversimplify the problem" 2: make too simple; "Don't oversimplify the instructions"

v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"

v 1: invest with or as with a body; give body to [syn: body, personify] 2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 3: attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: personify, personate]

v 1: cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned; "The horror petrified his feelings"; "Fear petrified her thinking" 2: change into stone; "the wood petrified with time" [syn: lapidify, petrify] 3: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking" [syn: rigidify, ossify, petrify]

n 1: the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle; approximately equal to 3.14159265358979323846... 2: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock] 3: the scientist in charge of an experiment or research project [syn: principal investigator, PI] 4: the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet 5: an antiviral drug used against HIV; interrupts HIV replication by binding and blocking HIV protease; often used in combination with other drugs [syn: protease inhibitor, PI]

v 1: make more beautiful [syn: fancify, beautify, embellish, prettify] [ant: uglify]

v 1: remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; "purify the water" [syn: purify, sublimate, make pure, distill] 2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: purify, purge, sanctify] 3: become clean or pure or free of guilt and sin; "The hippies came to the ashram in order to purify"

v 1: become putrid; decay with an offensive smell; "organic matter putrefies"

v 1: prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn: qualify, measure up] 2: pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the injections" [ant: disqualify] 3: make more specific; "qualify these remarks" [syn: qualify, restrict] 4: make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job" [syn: qualify, dispose] [ant: disqualify, indispose, unfit] 5: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify] 6: describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament for a dead lover" [syn: qualify, characterize, characterise] 7: add a modifier to a constituent [syn: modify, qualify]

v 1: use as a quantifier 2: express as a number or measure or quantity; "Can you quantify your results?" [syn: quantify, measure]

v 1: have or develop complicating consequences; "These actions will ramify" [syn: complexify, ramify] 2: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: ramify, branch] 3: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate]

v 1: lessen the density or solidity of; "The bones are rarefied" 2: make more subtle or refined [syn: rarefy, sublimate, subtilize] 3: weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance) [syn: rarefy, attenuate]

v 1: approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation; "All parties ratified the peace treaty"; "Have you signed your contract yet?" [syn: sign, ratify]

v 1: classify anew, change the previous classification; "The zoologists had to reclassify the mollusks after they found new species"

v 1: math: determine the length of; "rectify a curve" 2: reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities; "refine sugar" [syn: refine, rectify] 3: bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one; "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct" [syn: reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify] 4: set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend] 5: make right or correct; "Correct the mistakes"; "rectify the calculation" [syn: correct, rectify, right] [ant: falsify] 6: convert into direct current; "rectify alternating current"

v 1: consider an abstract concept to be real

v 1: unify again, as of a country; "Will Korea reunify?" [syn: reunify, reunite]

v 1: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

n 1: the physical property of being stiff and resisting bending [syn: rigidity, rigidness] 2: the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe [syn: inflexibility, rigidity, rigidness] [ant: flexibility, flexibleness]

v 1: render holy by means of religious rites [syn: consecrate, bless, hallow, sanctify] [ant: deconsecrate, desecrate, unhallow] 2: make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified" [syn: purify, purge, sanctify]

v 1: puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals; "The men in some African tribes scarify their faces" 2: scratch the surface of; "scarify seeds" 3: break up; "scarify soil"

v 1: denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" [syn: mean, intend, signify, stand for] 2: convey or express a meaning; "These words mean nothing to me!"; "What does his strange behavior signify?" 3: make known with a word or signal; "He signified his wish to pay the bill for our meal"

v 1: make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent; "We had to simplify the instructions"; "this move will simplify our lives" [ant: complicate, perplex]

n 1: the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth v 1: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: flip, toss, sky, pitch]

v 1: make solid or more solid; cause to solidify 2: become solid; "The metal solidified when it cooled"

v 1: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify] 2: decide upon or fix definitely; "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters" [syn: specify, set, determine, define, fix, limit] 3: determine the essential quality of [syn: specify, define, delineate, delimit, delimitate] 4: be specific about; "Could you please specify your criticism of my paper?" [syn: specify, particularize, particularise, specialize, specialise] [ant: generalise, generalize] 5: define clearly; "I cannot narrow down the rules for this game" [syn: pin down, peg down, nail down, narrow down, narrow, specify] 6: design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: intend, destine, designate, specify] 7: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: assign, specify, set apart]

adj 1: moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry]

n 1: (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors [syn: spy, undercover agent] 2: a secret watcher; someone who secretly watches other people; "my spies tell me that you had a good time last night" v 1: catch sight of [syn: descry, spot, espy, spy] 2: watch, observe, or inquire secretly [syn: spy, stag, snoop, sleuth] 3: catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" [syn: spy, sight] 4: secretly collect sensitive or classified information; engage in espionage; "spy for the Russians"

v 1: divide society into social classes or castes; "Income distribution often stratifies a society" 2: form layers or strata; "The rock stratifies" 3: develop different social levels, classes, or castes; "Society stratifies when the income gap widens" 4: form, arrange, or deposit in layers; "The fish are stratified in barrels"; "The rock was stratified by the force of the water"; "A statistician stratifies the list of names according to the addresses" 5: render fertile and preserve by placing between layers of earth or sand; "stratify seeds"

v 1: prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence; "nobody is legally allowed to stultify himself" 2: cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent" 3: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify]

v 1: make dull or stupid or muddle with drunkenness or infatuation [syn: besot, stupefy] 2: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 3: make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow; "stun fish" [syn: stun, stupefy]

v 1: divide into syllables; "syllabify the words" [syn: syllabify, syllabicate, syllabize, syllabise]

v 1: fill with terror; frighten greatly [syn: terrify, terrorize, terrorise]

v 1: give testimony in a court of law [syn: testify, attest, take the stand, bear witness] 2: provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" [syn: testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show]

n 1: the part of the leg between the hip and the knee 2: the upper joint of the leg of a fowl [syn: second joint, thigh]

n 1: neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front; "he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie"; "he wore a vest and tie" [syn: necktie, tie] 2: a social or business relationship; "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England" [syn: affiliation, association, tie, tie-up] 3: equality of score in a contest 4: a horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating; "he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam" [syn: tie, tie beam] 5: a fastener that serves to join or connect; "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction" [syn: link, linkup, tie, tie-in] 6: the finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided; "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie" [syn: draw, standoff, tie] 7: (music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value 8: one of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track; "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper" [syn: tie, railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper] 9: a cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied; "he needed a tie for the packages" v 1: fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord; "They tied their victim to the chair" [syn: tie, bind] [ant: unbrace, unlace, untie] 2: finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc.; "The teams drew a tie" [syn: tie, draw] 3: limit or restrict to; "I am tied to UNIX"; "These big jets are tied to large airports" 4: connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" [syn: connect, link, tie, link up] [ant: disconnect] 5: form a knot or bow in; "tie a necktie" 6: create social or emotional ties; "The grandparents want to bond with the child" [syn: bind, tie, attach, bond] 7: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice] 8: make by tying pieces together; "The fishermen tied their flies" 9: unite musical notes by a tie

v 1: change completely the nature or appearance of; "In Kafka's story, a person metamorphoses into a bug"; "The treatment and diet transfigured her into a beautiful young woman"; "Jesus was transfigured after his resurrection" [syn: metamorphose, transfigure, transmogrify]