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change

 
/tʃeɪndʒ/ v [I/T] (CLOTHES/BEDS)

Definition

to remove one set of clothes and put a different set on yourself or someone else, such as a baby, or to remove dirty sheets from a bed and put clean ones on it: [I] I’ll just change into (= put on) something a little dressier. [T] Could you change the baby/the baby’s diaper (= put on a clean one)? [T] I changed the sheets/the bed (= the sheets on the bed) in the guest room.
(Definition of change v (CLOTHES/BEDS) from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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