Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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modify | No | No | Yes | No |
veil | Yes | No | Yes | No |
modify (noun) | veil (noun) |
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a garment that covers the head and face | |
a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl | |
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) | |
a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms |
modify (verb) | veil (verb) |
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make less severe or harsh or extreme | make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing |
add a modifier to a constituent | to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil |
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |