to change
- verb
- /tʃeɪndʒ/
- Please change into something more formal for the meeting.
- change clothes
- wash and change
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- All right, so I'm just going to go and change and then let's start.
- It may happen because they aren't able to change a child's diaper.
Examples
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After the event, women changed back into the usual clothing in which they had arrived.
Academic text (1994) -
Change your diapers.
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Can I change the baby?
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Finally, she was able to change clothes, fix her face, and rush off to school.
Fiction book (1990) -
- I'm gonna go get changed.
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Why do people change their clothes, change their hairstyles?
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So I'm going to go change my menstrual cup.
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After a stinging shower, he changed and mounted his horse for the ride to Vigiliano Lopez's.
Fiction book (1990) -
For her mother, she cleaned the overnight rentals, changing sheets and scrubbing toilets.
Fiction book (1990) -
After swimming, he quickly changed out of his wet clothes.
Synonyms
To put on different clothes for a certain activity
Idioms
- Informal
To have a different opinion after seeing new facts or benefits
To make a place, industry or situation look and work very differently
- Informal
Switching leaders or plans during a project that is already happening when it is risky
Make the situation different so some people have a better chance to win
Phrasal Verbs
Switch to a different television channel by pressing a button or using the remote
Compounds
- Specialized
A medical operation and hormone treatment to make a person's body match the gender they feel
The time when a country's leaders, laws and policies become different after elections or protests
- Informal
An activity that is different from your normal routine to give you a pleasant break
- Specialized
Long-term change in Earth's usual weather and temperature mainly caused by people
- Specialized
A change where something changes state or appearance but stays the same substance
- Archaic
Medical treatment with surgery and hormones that helps a person live as a different gender
- Specialized
A process that turns one substance into a different one by changing its atoms or molecules
- Specialized
A material that moves from solid to liquid or gas without making a new substance
- Jargon
An act of replacing the player who throws the ball with another during a baseball game
- Specialized
A process where matter moves between solid, liquid, and gas without a chemical reaction
The way something becomes a different form when it is bent, heated, or pressed
- Specialized
A baseball pitch thrown much slower than expected to surprise a batter
- Formal
A one-time payment that a local government asks to handle a request to change how land can be used
How Dressed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Change comes from an old French word changier meaning 'to exchange' or 'swap'. So to change clothes is to take one set off and put another on.