Definition of Alter
Verb: alter ol-tu(r) [N. Amer], ol-tu(r) or ól-tu(r) [Brit]
- 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"
- Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- interpolate, falsify
- Remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat altered?";
- neuter, spay, castrate
See also:
altazimuths
alterabilities
Anagrams containing the word alter