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1. The sterilization of an animal
   "they took him to the vet for altering"
   - neutering, fixing

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: alterable, alteration

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

Encyclopedia: Alter Alter,Detroit