- Sudden or violent change.
- Change of one thing for another.
- Double and mutual change.
(Verbs). To revert, return to, relapse, recoil, rebound, react; to restore, etc. 660, to undo, unmake.
(Phrase). To turn the tables 719.
(Adjectives). Reverting, etc., restored, etc., placed in statu quo, revulsive, reactionary.
(Adverb). Uti possidetis.
(Interjection). As you were!
Revolution (Substantives), counter-revolution, transilience, jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, spasm, convulsion, throe, storm, earthquake, catastrophe, cataclysm 173.
Legerdemain, conjuration, sleight of hand, hocus-pocus, harlequinade, witchcraft, etc. 992.
A revolutionary, revolutionist; the red flag.
(Verbs). To revolutionise, remodel.
(Adverbs). Root and branch; before you can say "Jack Robinson."
Substitution (Substantives), commutation, enallage, metonymy, supplanting, synecdoche, antonomasia.
(Phrase). Borrowing of or robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Thing substituted: substitute 634, succedaneum, makeshift, locum - tenens, representative, proxy; deputy 759, vice, double, dummy, changeling, stop-gap, jury-mast, palimpsest, metaphor 521.
(Verbs). To substitute, commute, supplant, change for, supersede, take over from.
To give place to; to replace.
(Phrases). To serve as a substitute, etc.; to do duty for; to stand in the shoes of; to take the place of; to change hands 783.
(Adjectives). Substituted, etc., vicarious, subdititious.
(Adverbs). Instead, in place of, in lieu of, in the room of, mutato nomine; mutatis mutandis.
Interchange (Substantives), exchange, commutation, reciprocation, transposition, permutation, shuffling, castling (at chess), hocus - pocus, interchangeableness.
Reciprocity 12, retaliation 719, barter 794.
(Phrase). A quid pro quo.
(Verbs). To interchange, exchange, bandy, transpose, shuffle, change hands, swap, permute, reciprocate, commute, counter-change.
(Phrases). To play at puss in the corner; to give and take; you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours.
(Adjectives). Interchanged, etc., reciprocal, mutual, commutative, interchangeable, intercurrent.
(Phrases). A Roland for an Oliver; tit for tat; vice versa.