| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. The act of exchanging or substituting: commutation, exchange, interchange, shift, substitution, switch, trade, transposition. Informal : swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 2. The process or result of changing from one appearance, state, or phase to another: changeover, conversion, metamorphosis, mutation, shift, transfiguration, transformation, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation. See CHANGE. 3. The process or result of making or becoming different: alteration, modification, mutation, permutation, variation. See CHANGE. 4. The process or an instance of passing from one form, state, or stage to another: passage, shift, transit, transition. See CHANGE. | | VERB: | 1. To give up in return for something else: commute, exchange, interchange, shift, substitute, switch, trade. Informal : swap. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 2. To leave or discard for another: shift, switch. See CHANGE, SUBSTITUTE. 3. To make or become different: alter, modify, mutate, turn, vary. See CHANGE.
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