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Verb: alter  oltu(r)
  1. Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
    "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"
    - change, modify
     
  2. Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
    - change, vary
     
  3. Make an alteration to
    "This dress needs to be altered"
     
  4. Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
    - interpolate, falsify
     
  5. Remove the ovaries of
    - neuter, spay, castrate

Sounds like: altar

Derived forms: alters, altered, altering

See also: alterable, alteration

Type of: desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, edit, fix, redact, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex

Encyclopedia: Alter Alter,Detroit