alter

Verbs

  • (v) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
    • The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city
    • The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue
    change, modify,
  • (v) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
    • her mood changes in accordance with the weather
    • The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season
    vary, change,
  • (v) make an alteration to
    • This dress needs to be altered
  • (v) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby interpolate, falsify,
  • (v) remove the ovaries of
    • Is your cat spayed?
    neuter, spay, castrate,

Synonyms

change modify vary interpolate falsify neuter spay castrate

Words of close approximity

alto
altar
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