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change vs lighten

lighten vs change

change is a noun but lighten is not a noun.

change and lighten both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
change Yes No Yes No
lighten No No Yes No
As verbs, lighten is a hyponym of change; that is, lighten is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than change:
  • change: undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature
  • lighten: become lighter
Other hyponyms of change include freshen, freshen up, refresh, refreshen, dress, get dressed, acquire, develop, get, grow, produce, regenerate, shade, gel, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, creolize, mutate, experience, have, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, roll, roll up, glass, glass over, glaze, glaze over, grow, turn, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, change by reversal, reverse, turn, change integrity, change form, change shape, deform, form, change state, turn, climb up, jump, rise, assimilate, dissimilate, dissimilate, change magnitude, modify, deaden, break, crumble, decay, dilapidate, mildew, mold, mould, hydrate, dry, dry out, strengthen, distil, distill, deoxidise, deoxidize, reduce, crack, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, grow, mellow, mellow out, melt, soften, ionise, ionize, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, lighten up, color, colour, discolor, discolour, discolor, contract, narrow, darken, dim, boil, break, check, crack, transpire, resume, take up, change surface, sublimate, sublime, cool, cool down, cool off, warm up, warm, warm up, metamorphose, transform, transmute, convert, dull, get used to, complexify, ramify, Americanise, Americanize, develop, modernise, modernize, stiffen, tighten, break, break down, conk out, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad, give way, yield, harden, indurate, harden, indurate, suffuse, hush, normalise, normalize, reorient, purify, digest, regress, foul, decalcify, industrialise, industrialize, decarboxylate, spot, find, get, incur, obtain, receive, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, acquire, adopt, assume, take, take on, prim, capacitate, caseate, caseate, clinker, cure, dawn, salinate, desalinate, desalinise, desalinize, desalt, shallow, shoal, steepen, superannuate, ulcerate, vitrify, vulcanise, vulcanize, dull, pall, become flat, die, pall, saponify, go, move, run, come, catch, catch on, develop, grow, fly, acquire, develop, evolve, assibilate, smoothen, turn on, drop, break into, change, deepen, concretise, concretize, decay, commute, transpose, introject, shift, swing, fall, fall, reflate, hydrolyse, hydrolyze, fold, fold up, gelatinise, gelatinize, felt, felt up, mat, mat up, matt-up, matte, matte up, recombine, feminise, feminize, obsolesce, plasticise, plasticize, recede, defervesce, incandesce, calcify, drift, play out, conjugate, isomerise, isomerize, evaporate, vaporise, indurate, gradate, keratinise, keratinize, opacify, mature, rejuvenate, sequester, transaminate, vesiculate, undulate, vascularise, vascularize, crash, professionalise, professionalize, shift, flip, flip out, gum, repress, shear, damage, synthesize, come around, come round, promote, divide, part, separate, arrange, format, fall for, ascend, move up, rise, change posture, settle, break, cave in, collapse, fall in, founder, give, give way, undergo, solarise, solarize, occult, pass, depart, leave, pull up stakes, liberalise, liberalize, stratify, democratise, democratize, loosen, relax, reticulate, flocculate, carbonate, come in, go out, stagnate, make, frost over, ice over, ice up.
As verbs, lighten is a hyponym of change; that is, lighten is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than change:
  • change: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
  • lighten: make more cheerful through the use of color
Other hyponyms of change include arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken, cause to sleep, affect, freshen, refresh, refreshen, fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate, indispose, cry, etiolate, shade, animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize, convert, opalise, opalize, arterialise, arterialize, get, make, counterchange, interchange, transpose, vascularise, vascularize, decrepitate, suburbanise, suburbanize, overturn, revolutionise, revolutionize, etiolate, barbarise, barbarize, alkalinise, alkalinize, mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize, allegorise, allegorize, demythologise, demythologize, bring, land, coarsen, affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on, alchemise, alchemize, alcoholise, alcoholize, form, shape, round, round down, round off, round out, suspend, sober, reconstruct, increase, ease off, ease up, let up, assimilate, dissimilate, commute, convert, exchange, vitalise, vitalize, clear, unclutter, activate, activate, activate, aerate, activate, deactivate, inactivate, blunt, deaden, reconstruct, redo, remodel, edit, redact, cut, edit, edit out, chasten, subdue, tame, chasten, temper, ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen, wet, dry, dry out, lubricate, beef up, fortify, strengthen, fortify, lace, spike, weaken, blunt, oxidate, oxidise, oxidize, merge, unify, unite, age, mature, ripen, antiquate, antique, antiquate, develop, make grow, soften, damage, ossify, acerbate, stabilise, stabilize, destabilise, destabilize, sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize, desensitise, desensitize, accustom, habituate, disarray, disorder, discolor, color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize, stain, hue, uglify, untune, adjust, correct, set, set, disqualify, indispose, unfit, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame, widen, dehydrogenate, hydrogenate, oxygenise, oxygenize, darken, brighten, lighten up, blear, blur, bedim, obscure, overcloud, blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure, veil, cook, slenderise, slenderize, crack, dismiss, dissolve, end, terminate, defog, demist, concentrate, condense, contract, chill, cool, cool down, heat, heat up, warm, boil, freeze, blister, change over, shift, switch, transpose, change over, convert, transform, transform, transform, transmute, transform, transmute, transubstantiate, ash, transform, translate, reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate, convert, Islamise, Islamize, invert, reverse, turn back, invert, customise, customize, individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize, depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify, sharpen, drop, flatten, disintegrate, magnetise, magnetize, degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize, simplify, complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine, refine, complicate, perplex, pressurise, pressurize, supercharge, centralise, centralize, concentrate, decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate, socialise, socialize, fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up, internationalise, internationalize, bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize, Europeanise, Europeanize, Europeanise, Europeanize, bestialise, bestialize, Americanise, Americanize, Frenchify, civilise, civilize, nationalise, nationalize, denationalise, denationalize, naturalise, naturalize, denaturalise, denaturalize, naturalise, naturalize, denaturalise, denaturalize, even, even out, equal, equalise, equalize, equate, match, stiffen, loose, loosen, fasten, tighten, transitivise, transitivize, detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize, inspissate, thicken, full, diversify, decelerate, slow down, deaden, accelerate, speed, speed up, check, delay, retard, decrease, lessen, minify, liquefy, liquidise, liquidize, liquify, solvate, dissolve, validate, invalidate, vitiate, void, empty, fill, fill up, make full, saturate, clot, coagulate, louden, normalise, normalize, renormalise, renormalize, morph, neutralise, neutralize, commercialise, commercialize, market, purge, purify, sanctify, mechanise, mechanize, automate, automatise, automatize, automatise, automatize, mechanise, mechanize, chord, harmonise, harmonize, polarise, polarize, glorify, contaminate, devalue, insulate, calcify, urbanise, urbanize, urbanise, urbanize, emulsify, demulsify, decarboxylate, nazify, fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, clarify, embrittle, mark, nick, disable, disenable, incapacitate, enable, de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress, tender, tenderise, tenderize, charge, bubble, sweeten, iodinate, ionate, archaise, archaize, inform, officialise, officialize, occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize, orientalise, orientalize, acetylate, acetylise, acetylize, achromatise, achromatize, collimate, parallel, camp, classicise, classicize, conventionalise, conventionalize, decimalise, decimalize, dizzy, envenom, poison, exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify, glamorise, glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, introvert, laicise, laicize, politicise, politicize, radicalize, proof, romanticise, romanticize, rusticate, sauce, shallow, shoal, tense, steepen, scramble, unscramble, unsex, vitrify, pall, saponify, expand, extend, set aside, suspend, muddy, transform, elevate, lift, raise, harshen, dinge, demonise, demonize, devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize, etherealize, etherialise, immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize, animate, animise, animize, clear, dynamise, dynamize, dynamise, dynamize, rarefy, sublimate, subtilize, volatilise, volatilize, uniformise, uniformize, symmetrise, symmetrize, eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize, denature, denature, denature, sanitise, sanitize, verbify, shift, sputter, draw, make, dope, prostrate, excite, energise, energize, excite, shake, outmode, spice, spice up, shorten, think, make, deflate, inflate, digitalise, digitalize, digitise, digitize, gelatinise, gelatinize, recombine, effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize, masculinise, masculinize, virilise, virilize, masculinize, disharmonize, dissonate, sexualise, sexualize, schematise, schematize, patent, constitutionalise, constitutionalize, rationalise, rationalize, plasticise, plasticize, rarefy, paganise, paganize, incandesce, deaminate, deaminize, angulate, circularize, sensitise, sensitize, sensitise, sensitize, depolarise, depolarize, intensify, isomerise, isomerize, legitimate, evaporate, vaporise, industrialise, industrialize, opacify, opsonize, militarise, militarize, nationalise, nationalize, recommend, sentimentalise, sentimentalize, solemnise, solemnize, territorialise, territorialize, transaminate, glorify, spiritualize, transfigure, unsanctify, vesiculate, visualise, visualize, variegate, ventilate, vivify, vulgarise, vulgarize, supple, professionalise, professionalize, smut, still, weaponize, eroticize, sex up, piggyback, port, lifehack, cloud, blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure, moderate, tame, tone down, obfuscate, synchronise, synchronize, mince, moderate, soften, militarise, militarize, break down, crush, fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out, disturb, touch, dull, blunt, dull, sharpen, coarsen, loosen, loosen, undo, untie, barb, string, straighten, straighten out, bring, amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify, charge, put, clean, make clean, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil, depress, lower, deform, break, break up, alter, adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament, humanise, humanize, humble, alienate, disaffect, estrange, right, desensitise, desensitize, deodorise, deodorize, deodourise, develop, blur, blind, change intensity, change taste, exchange, interchange, replace, substitute, capture, add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend, reestablish, reinstate, restore, liberalise, liberalize, compensate, correct, redress, right, democratise, democratize, neutralize, corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate, loosen, relax, unify, unite, flocculate, turn, cohere, commit.
change (noun) lighten (noun)
the action of changing something
a different or fresh set of clothes
a thing that is different
a difference that is usually pleasant
an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
the result of alteration or modification
coins of small denomination regarded collectively
the balance of money received when the amount you tender is greater than the amount due
money received in return for its equivalent in a larger denomination or a different currency
a relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event
change (verb) lighten (verb)
undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature make more cheerful through the use of color
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation become lighter
become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence alleviate or remove (pressure or stress) or make less oppressive
change clothes; put on different clothes become more cheerful
exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category reduce the weight on; make lighter
lay aside, abandon, or leave for another make more cheerful
remove or replace the coverings of
become deeper in tone
change from one vehicle or transportation line to another
give to, and receive from, one another
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