Noun: altering ol-tu-ring [N. Amer], ól-tu-ring or ol-tu-ring [Brit]
- The sterilization of an animal
"The veterinarian recommended altering the cat to prevent unwanted litters";
- neutering
- Make different; cause a transformation
"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city";
- change, modify
- Become different in some particular way
"her mood alters in accordance with the weather";
- change, vary
- Make an alteration to
"This dress needs to be altered"
- Remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat altered?";
- neuter, spay, castrate
Type of: act, cause, desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, get, have, induce, make, move, sterilisation [Brit], sterilise [Brit], sterilization, sterilize, stimulate, unsex
Encyclopedia: Altering
Alter, Peter