changedchanged /tʃeɪndʒd/ adjective 
Since she stopped drinking, she’s a changed woman.2relating to a change in someone’s situation: Businesses need to adapt to changed circumstances.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- Even the March sun looks changed as it splinters off the chrome on the fold-away camp bed.
- The machine controls caused power to be applied and consequences to occur which resulted in changed readings on the instruments.
Longman Language Activatorsomeone who has changed completely
use this to say that someone has changed a lot from what they were like before because of an important or powerful experience: · My father came back from the war a changed man.· She returned from her travel a changed woman.
someone who is reformed has completely changed their behaviour and stopped doing things that other people disapprove of, for example stealing or drinking too much: · Since the birth of his baby, Mark has totally reformed.· Al Pacino plays a reformed crook who gets pulled back into a life of crime.
to change your clothes to take off your clothes and put on different clothes: · The first thing I do when I get home from school is get changed.· Are you going to get changed before the party?
to take off all or some of your clothes and put some different clothes on: · I'll just change my shirt and I'll be with you in a minute.· "Have you got your bathing suit on?" "No, I'll change when we get there." change into: · She changed into a sweater and some jeans.
to take off your clothes: take off something · "It's warm in here,'' said Michael, taking off his jacket.take something/it/them off · Take your shoes off before you come in.· Mom, I hate this tie. Can I take it off?
to take off all your clothes, especially before going to bed: · She got undressed and went to bed.
written to take off all your clothes, especially before going to bed: · Paul went into the bathroom to undress.
to take off your clothes and put on different clothes: · The boys ran up the stairs to get changed.· I'll be ready in a second, I just have to get changed.
to take off all or some of your clothes and put different clothes on: · Do you mind waiting while I change my clothes?change into: · She changed into a sweater and some jeans.change out of: · Ed went into the bedroom to change out of his work clothes.
to quickly take off all your clothes or a piece of clothing: · We stripped off and dived into the pool.strip off something: · She ran upstairs, stripped off her jeans and sweater and pulled on a dressing gown.
to take off all your clothes, especially because someone has told you to, or in a way that is deliberately sexually exciting: · The women in the club screamed and clapped as the male dancers began to strip.strip to the waist (=take off all the clothes on the top half of your body): · "I'd like you to strip to the waist so I can listen to your chest,'' said the doctor.strip (down) to your shorts, underwear etc (=take off everything except your shorts, underwear etc): · The prisoners were ordered to strip down to their underwear and wait for the guards.
to take off your clothes or a piece of clothing very quickly and roughly: tear off something: · I tore off the plastic gloves and threw them away.tear something off: · James began to undress wildly, tearing his clothes off as if he was on fire.
the same as before · Now that Sam's retired, things won't be the same around here.· The people may be different, but their music remains the same.the same as · We went to the office Christmas party, but it was just the same as last year's.the same as ever · School's the same as ever - too much work and not enough time to do what I really want!just the same/exactly the same (=not changed in any way) · I hadn't seen John for ages, but he was still just the same.
if someone or something hasn't changed , they are the same as they were before, even though you have not seen them for a long time: · I went back to my old school for a visit - it hadn't changed.· He hasn't changed at all - he's still crazy about football.
still the same, especially after a long period of time when there would usually have been a lot of changes: · She kept her son's bedroom unchanged for years after his death.· On going back to visit the village after almost twenty years, Mrs Simons was surprised to find it unchanged.remain unchanged: · They speak an Indian language which has remained virtually unchanged for centuries.
the same as before, and not changed or affected by something that has happened: remain unaffected: · The rest of the world was in recession, but the Soviet economy remained unaffected.unaffected by: · The Queen's role remains the same, apparently unaffected by the changes and upheavals of recent years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Steve changed his name by deed poll to Elvis Presley-Smith. I changed her diaper. Three years on, Jack’s life has dramatically changed. That idiot changed lanes without signalling. Rudy changed tack, his tone suddenly becoming friendly.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
Steve changed his name by deed poll to Elvis Presley-Smith. I changed her diaper. Three years on, Jack’s life has dramatically changed. That idiot changed lanes without signalling. Rudy changed tack, his tone suddenly becoming friendly.· She adopted the name Hertha, perhaps to indicate her changed circumstances.· Clearly all organisations, if they are to be successful need to adapt to changed circumstances.· Under changed circumstances, implicit themes, both justificatory and critical, could be jerked into argumentative explicitness.· To occasion change, then, requires a willingness to respond to changed perceptions, and changed circumstances.· It could be conveniently set aside in the changed circumstances after James V's death, when the real issue became clear.· There is the danger that the plan becomes fossilised, static and unresponsive to new intelligence or other changed circumstances.· Ordering her would be ludicrous under the changed circumstances, and in any event, a waste of time.· What are they to do in the changed circumstances?
· Pye's own estate lay in disputed territory which changed hands at least twice.· In the former case there were no restrictions and thus land changed hands at the full market price.· It may have changed hands as often as eight times in a period of twenty years.· Some 6.5m shares are said to have changed hands in two hours.· In 1986, about 1.78million properties worth £73billion changed hands.· Money may not have changed hands.· Only when he stooped and some lire changed hands did she realise that he must be intending to walk back.· The ownership of all three of Chrysler's carpet suppliers, for instance, changed hands within one year.
· He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.· Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.· He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.· But when he came home he was a changed man.· He emerged from the opera house a changed man.· It was from that time, his friends judged, that he became a changed man.· He spent three months there and came out a changed man.· A tough Southern youth returns from the front a changed man.
· She was trying to grasp the radically changed situation with which she must come to terms.· A changed situation may be welcomed as a release from such suffering, although not without mixed feelings.· We must take action to deal with the changed situation we presently face.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
- Marley said he was sorry for his crimes and insists he's a changed man.
- My father came back from the war a changed man.
- She returned from her travel a changed woman.
- But when he came home he was a changed man.
- He's a changed man since Mum went into hospital.
- He emerged from the opera house a changed man.
- He lives only for the moment, and he is already a changed man.
- Ian says from then on Robert has been a changed man - withdrawn and completely unapproachable.
- Meanwhile, the master strategist, off in Los Angeles, was sixty-nine years old and a changed man.
WORD FAMILYadjectivechangeableinterchangeablechanged ≠ unchangedchanging ≠ unchangingchangelessnounchangeinterchangeinterchangeabilityverbchangeinterchangeadverbinterchangeably
1a changed man/woman someone who has become very different from what they were before, as a result of a very important experience: Since she stopped drinking, she’s a changed woman.2relating to a change in someone’s situation: Businesses need to adapt to changed circumstances.