Compounding Relators and Properties
Combinations are frequently made with adjectives/adverbs (As with things, the notation for these properties would be italicized when used to identify a relationship):
• Improve is (cause)(quality)(increase). Expedite is (cause)(quality)(increase)(associated with)(time)
• Suffer is (experience)(bad)
• Cause to succeed is (cause)(X)(successful)
• Decorate is (cause)(decorated)
• Color is (cause)(color)
• Damage is (cause)(damaged)
• Open/close is (cause)(opened/closed)
• Fortify is (cause)(safe). Protect or Defend is (facilitate)(safe). Defend oneself is (practice)(safe). Camouflage is (disguise)(for)(protect).
• Delay is (cause)(delayed)
• Embarrass financially is (cause)(poor)
• Brutalize is (cause to be)(brutal) or (act)(brutally) [we thus reduce the ambiguity in the word itself] Exploit is (dominate)(unethically).
• Floating is (being)(on top of)(liquid)
• Compliment or Toast is (talk)(complimentary). Criticize is (talk)(critically). Advise is (talk)(supportively) [to cause improvement in something?] Espouse is (talk))(about)
(favorably). Support is (behave)(supportively).
• Clean is (cause)(clean)
• Know or Understand or Assume is (think)(true) [despite Natural Semantic Metalanguage treating ‘know’ as a semantic primitive]
• Arrange is (cause)(arranged)
• Accept is (decide)(favorably). Concede is accept the insight of another.
• Sympathize is (understand)(feelings or beliefs)
• Guess or Suppose is (decide)(arbitrary)
• Restore is (cause)(aesthetically pleasing)(again).
• Conspire is (cooperate)(secretly)
• Patronize is (talk)(complimentary)(false).39 Forge is (create)(false)(document).
• Nag is (talk)(not)(complimentary)(regularly)
• Doubt is (think)(X)(mistaken) Misconstrue is (think)(mistaken).
• Volunteering is (offering)(voluntary)
• Suggest or Hint is (talk)(suggestively). Tempt is suggest acting
• Elaborate is (talk)(about)(more)
• Maneuver is (move)(strategic)
• Deform is (change)(shape)(bad)
• Explode is (disassemble)(intensely). Detonate is (cause)(disassemble)(intensely).
In particular, combinations are often made with adjectives/adverbs that signal intensity:
• Smash is (hit)(hard)
• Focus is to (think or observe)(intensely)
• Yell is (talk)(intensely), whisper is (talk)(not)(intensely)
• Slam is (cause)(closed)(intensely)