changing

Verb

change (third-person singular simple present changes, present participle changing, simple past and past participle changed)

1. (intransitive) To become something different.
   • The tadpole changed into a frog.
2. (ergative, transitive) To make something into something else.
   • Lo I the man, whoſe Muſe whilome did maske,
     As time her taught in lowly Shepheards weeds,
     Am now enforſt a far unfitter taske,
     For trumpets ſterne to chaunge mine oaten reeds,
     And ſinge of Knights and Ladies gentle deeds[…]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 1

   Synonyms:

   transform

3. (transitive) To replace.
   • Ask the janitor to come and change the lightbulb.
4. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
   • You can't go into the dressing room while she’s changing.
5. (transitive) To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it), especially to put a clean diaper on (someone).
   • It’s your turn to change the baby.
6. (transitive) To replace the sheets on (a bed) with fresh clean ones.

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