Alter

['ɔːltə;'ɒl-] or ['ɔltɚ]

Definition

(verb.) remove the ovaries of; 'Is your cat spayed?'.

(verb.) make an alteration to; 'This dress needs to be altered'.

Typist: Pansy--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

(v. t.) To agitate; to affect mentally.

(v. t.) To geld.

(v. i.) To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.

Editor: Lucius

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. Change (partially), vary, modify, shift, turn, transmute, metamorphose, transform, convert, make some change in.

v. n. Vary, change, be changeable.

Typist: Mabel

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Substitute, change, vary, modify, exchange, diversify, remodel

ANT:Retain, perpetuate, conserve, stereotype, arrest, solidify, stabilitate

Typed by Hannah

Definition

v.t. to make different: to change: (U.S.) to castrate.—v.i. to become different: to vary.—ns. Alterabil′ity Al′terableness.—adj. Al′terable that may be altered.—adv. Al′terably.—adj. Al′terant altering: having the power of producing changes.—n. Alterā′tion change.—adj. Al′terative having power to alter.—n. a medicine that makes a change in the vital functions.—n. Alter′ity (Coleridge) the state of being other or different.

Typed by Bernadine

Examples

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