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1. 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"
    
2. Having testicles or ovaries removed
   - neutered
    
3. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
   "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"
   - adapted

1. 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
   "her mood alters in accordance with the weather"
   - 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
   "Is your cat altered?"
   - neuter, spay, castrate

See also: adjusted, alterable, alteration, castrated, changed, edited, emended, modified, paraphrastic, revised, unsexed

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

Antonym: unaltered

Encyclopedia: Alter Alter,Detroit