qualify

To make competent or eligible for an office, position, or task.

To declare competent or capable, as to practice a profession; certify.

To render deserving of a descriptor by having or enumerating certain necessary characteristics.

To modify, limit, or restrict, as by listing exceptions or reservations.

To make less harsh or severe; moderate: synonym: moderate.

To modify the meaning of (a noun, for example).

To be or become qualified.

To reach the later stages of a selection process or contest by competing successfully in earlier rounds.