convert into, resolve into; make, render; mold, form &c. 240; remodel,
new model, refound[obs3], reform, reorganize; assimilate to, bring to, reduce to. 
     Adj. converted into &c. v.; convertible, resolvable into;
transitional; naturalized. 
     Adv. gradually, &c. (slowly) 275 in transitu &c. (transference)
270[Lat].

     #145.  Reversion. —­ N. reversion, return; revulsion.
     turning point, turn of the tide; status quo ante bellum; calm before a
storm; alternation &c. (periodicity) 138; inversion &c. 219; recoil &c. 277; retreat, regression, retrogression &c. 283; restoration &c. 660; relapse, recidivism &c. 661; atavism; vicinism[obs3];
     V. revert, turn back, regress; relapse &c. 661; recoil &c. 277;
retreat &c. 283; restore &c. 660; undo, unmake; turn the tide, roll back the tide, turn the scale, tip the scale. 
     Adj. reverting &c. v.; regressive, revulsive, reactionary;
retrorse[obs3]. 
     Adv. a rebours[Fr].

     #146. [Sudden or violent change.] Revolution. —­ N. revolution,
bouleversement, subversion, break up; destruction &c. 162; sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change; change of state, phase change; quantum leap, quantum jump; clean sweep, coup d’etat[Fr], counter revolution.
     jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience|; explosion; spasm,
convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, cataclysm.
     legerdemain &c. (trick) 545. 
     V. revolutionize; new model, remodel, recast; strike out something
new, break with the past; change the face of, unsex. 
     Adj. unrecognizable; revolutionary.

     #147. [Change of one thing for another.] Substitution. —­ N.
substitution, commutation; supplanting &c. v.; metaphor, metonymy &c. (figure of speech) 521.
     [Thing substituted] substitute, ersatz, makeshift, temporary
expedient, replacement, succedaneum; shift, pis aller[Fr], stopgap, jury rigging, jury mast, locum tenens, warming pan, dummy, scapegoat; double; changeling; quid pro quo, alternative.
     representative &c. (deputy) 759; palimpsest.
     price, purchase money, consideration, equivalent. 
     V. substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give
place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for. 
     Adj. substituted &c.; ersatz; phony; vicarious, subdititious[obs3]. 
     Adv. instead; in place of, in lieu of, in the stead of, in the room
of; faute de mieux[Fr].