Verb
(
en verb)
To modify.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist)
, title=
A new prescription
, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists
adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
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To improve or rectify.
* {{quote-magazine, title=Towards the end of poverty
, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838, page=11, magazine=(
The Economist)
citation
, passage=But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and
adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.}}
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To settle an insurance claim.
To change to fit circumstances.
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