'alter' definitions:
Definition of 'alter'
(from WordNet)
verb
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" [syn: change, alter, modify]
verb
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" [syn: change, alter, vary]
verb
Make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered"
verb
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby [syn: interpolate, alter, falsify]
verb
Synonyms of 'alter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- accommodate,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- adjust to,
- alter into,
- ameliorate,
- assuage,
- be changed,
- be converted into,
- be renewed,
- become,
- better,
- bottom out,
- box in,
- break,
- break up,
- castrate,
- change,
- change into,
- checker,
- chop,
- chop and change,
- circumscribe,
- come about,
- come around,
- come round,
- come round to,
- condition,
- convert,
- deform,
- degenerate,
- denature,
- deteriorate,
- deviate,
- diminish,
- diverge,
- diversify,
- emasculate,
- eunuchize,
- evolve into,
- fall into,
- fit,
- fix,
- flop,
- geld,
- haul around,
- hedge,
- hedge about,
- improve,
- jibe,
- lapse into,
- leaven,
- limit,
- meliorate,
- melt into,
- mitigate,
- moderate,
- modify,
- modulate,
- mutate,
- narrow,
- open into,
- overthrow,
- palliate,
- pass into,
- qualify,
- re-create,
- realign,
- rebuild,
- reconstruct,
- redesign,
- reduce,
- refit,
- reform,
- regulate by,
- remake,
- remodel,
- renew,
- reshape,
- restrain,
- restrict,
- restructure,
- revamp,
- revise,
- revive,
- ring the changes,
- ripen into,
- run into,
- season,
- set conditions,
- set limits,
- settle into,
- shift,
- shift into,
- shift the scene,
- shuffle the cards,
- soften,
- spay,
- subvert,
- swerve,
- tack,
- take a turn,
- temper,
- transform,
- turn,
- turn aside,
- turn into,
- turn the corner,
- turn the scale,
- turn the tables,
- turn the tide,
- turn to,
- turn upside down,
- undergo a change,
- unsex,
- vary,
- veer,
- warp,
- work a change,
- worsen