awaken, wake up, waken, rouse, wake, arouse - cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."

cause to sleep - make fall asleep; "The soft music caused us to fall asleep"

affect - act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate"

indispose - cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed"

cry - bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep"

etiolate - make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"

shade - vary slightly; "shade the meaning"

convert - change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"

make, get - give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"

decrepitate - to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts"

etiolate - bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight

barbarise, barbarize - make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"

allegorise, allegorize - make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time"

demythologise, demythologize - remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"

land, bring - bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"

coarsen - make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals"

shape, form - give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"

suspend - cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"

sober - cause to become sober; "A sobering thought"

reconstruct - cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically

increase - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"

ease off, let up, ease up - reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down"

assimilate - make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"

dissimilate - make dissimilar; cause to become less similar

clear, unclutter - rid of obstructions; "Clear your desk"

activate - make active or more active; "activate an old file"

activate - make (substances) radioactive

aerate, activate - aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter

alternate, jump - go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions

crackle - to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"

modulate - vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)

avianise, avianize - to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo

move - go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"

adapt, accommodate - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"

widen, let out - make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"

take in - make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight"

diversify, radiate - spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified"

honeycomb - make full of cavities, like a honeycomb

break - vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas"

alter, change, modify - 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"

edit, redact - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages"