'altered' definitions:

Changed in form or character without becoming something else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens [ant: unaltered, unchanged]

Having testicles or ovaries removed [syn: altered, neutered]

Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages" [syn: adapted, altered]