One among the stars in M*A*S*H (8)
I believe the answer is:
asterisk
'stars in mash' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to change as well as being verbs in their base form.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'one among the' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'one' could be 'i' (Roman numeral) and 'i' is present in the answer.
'the' could be 't' (the is pronounced as a 't' sound in some dialects) and 't' is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asterisk that I've seen before include "Star of typography" , "Printed star" , "Sign" , "Character drawing attention to footnote" , "Star in print" .)