Verb

To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.

To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task.

* Macaulay

He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.

To certify or license someone for something.

To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.

*1598 , Shakespeare,

*:O! never say that I was false of heart,

*:Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify

To mitigate, alleviate (something); to make less disagreeable.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:

he balmes and herbes thereto applyde, / And euermore with mighty spels them charmd, / That in short space he has them qualifyde , / And him restor'd to health, that would haue algates dyde.

To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage.

To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.

* Sir Thomas Browne

It hath no larynx to qualify the sound.

(juggling) To throw and catch each object at least twice.

Verb

(en verb)

To modify.

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, 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.}}

To improve or rectify.

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To settle an insurance claim.

To change to fit circumstances.