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alter
alterchange: alter a will; adjust: She’ll need to alter her wedding gown to make it fit.
Not to be confused with:altar – a table or platform used in a church service or ceremonial rite: They knelt at the altar for communion.al·ter A0229700 (ôl′tər)v. al·tered, al·ter·ing, al·ters v.tr.1. To change or make different; modify: altered my will.2. To adjust (a garment) for a better fit.3. To castrate or spay (an animal, such as a cat or a dog).v.intr. To change or become different.
[Middle English alteren, from Old French alterer, from Medieval Latin alterāre, from Latin alter, other; see al- in Indo-European roots.]
al′ter·a·bil′i·ty, al′ter·a·ble·ness n.al′ter·a·ble adj.al′ter·a·bly adv.alter (ˈɔːltə) vb1. to make or become different in some respect; change2. (tr) informal chiefly US a euphemistic word for castrate, spay[C14: from Old French alterer, from Medieval Latin alterāre to change, from Latin alter other] ˈalterable adj ˈalterably adv ˌalteraˈbility nal•ter (ˈɔl tər)
v.t. 1. to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify: to alter a coat; to alter a will. 2. to castrate or spay. v.i. 3. to change; become different or modified. [1350–1400; Middle English < Old French alterer < Late Latin alterāre to change, worsen, derivative of Latin alter other] al′ter•a•ble, adj. al`ter•a•bil′i•ty, n. al′ter•a•bly, adv. al′ter•er, n. syn: See adjust, change. alter
Past participle: altered
Gerund: altering
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| I alter | | you alter | | he/she/it alters | | we alter | | you alter | | they alter |
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| I altered | | you altered | | he/she/it altered | | we altered | | you altered | | they altered |
| Present Continuous |
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| I am altering | | you are altering | | he/she/it is altering | | we are altering | | you are altering | | they are altering |
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| I have altered | | you have altered | | he/she/it has altered | | we have altered | | you have altered | | they have altered |
| Past Continuous |
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| I was altering | | you were altering | | he/she/it was altering | | we were altering | | you were altering | | they were altering |
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| I had altered | | you had altered | | he/she/it had altered | | we had altered | | you had altered | | they had altered |
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| I will alter | | you will alter | | he/she/it will alter | | we will alter | | you will alter | | they will alter |
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| I will have altered | | you will have altered | | he/she/it will have altered | | we will have altered | | you will have altered | | they will have altered |
| Future Continuous |
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| I will be altering | | you will be altering | | he/she/it will be altering | | we will be altering | | you will be altering | | they will be altering |
| Present Perfect Continuous |
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| I have been altering | | you have been altering | | he/she/it has been altering | | we have been altering | | you have been altering | | they have been altering |
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| I will have been altering | | you will have been altering | | he/she/it will have been altering | | we will have been altering | | you will have been altering | | they will have been altering |
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| I had been altering | | you had been altering | | he/she/it had been altering | | we had been altering | | you had been altering | | they had been altering |
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| I would alter | | you would alter | | he/she/it would alter | | we would alter | | you would alter | | they would alter |
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| I would have altered | | you would have altered | | he/she/it would have altered | | we would have altered | | you would have altered | | they would have altered |
Thesaurus| Verb | 1. |  alter - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"change, modifyawaken, wake up, waken, rouse, wake, arouse - cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM."cause to sleep - make fall asleep; "The soft music caused us to fall asleep"affect - act physically on; have an effect upon; "the medicine affects my heart rate"refreshen, freshen, refresh - make fresh againfecundate, inseminate, fertilise, fertilize - introduce semen into (a female)indispose - cause to feel unwell; "She was indisposed"cry - bring into a particular state by crying; "The little boy cried himself to sleep"etiolate - make pale or sickly; "alcohol etiolates your skin"shade - vary slightly; "shade the meaning"animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize - make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman; "Life in the camps had brutalized him"convert - change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers"opalise, opalize - make opalescentarterialise, arterialize - change venous blood into arterial bloodmake, get - give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear"counterchange, interchange, transpose - cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size"vascularise, vascularize - make vascular; "the yolk sac is gradually vascularized"decrepitate - to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops; "decrepitate salts"suburbanise, suburbanize - make suburban in character; "highly suburbanized cities"revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn - change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe"etiolate - bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlightbarbarise, barbarize - make crude or savage in behavior or speech; "his years in prison have barbarized the young man"alkalinise, alkalinize - make (a substance) alkaline; "The oxide is alkalized"mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize - make into a myth; "The Europeans have mythicized Rte. 66"allegorise, allegorize - make into an allegory; "The story was allegorized over time"demythologise, demythologize - remove the mythical element from (writings); "the Bible should be demythologized and examined for its historical value"land, bring - bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"coarsen - make less subtle or refined; "coarsen one's ideals"affect, bear upon, impact, bear on, touch on, touch - have an effect upon; "Will the new rules affect me?"alchemise, alchemize - alter (elements) by alchemyalcoholise, alcoholize - make alcoholic, as by fermenting; "alcoholize prunes"shape, form - give shape or form to; "shape the dough"; "form the young child's character"round down, round off, round out, round - express as a round number; "round off the amount"suspend - cause to be held in suspension in a fluid; "suspend the particles"sober - cause to become sober; "A sobering thought"reconstruct - cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politicallyincrease - make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"ease off, let up, ease up - reduce pressure or intensity; "he eased off the gas pedal and the car slowed down"assimilate - make similar; "This country assimilates immigrants very quickly"dissimilate - make dissimilar; cause to become less similarcommute, exchange, convert - exchange a penalty for a less severe onevitalise, vitalize - give life to; "The eggs are vitalized"clear, unclutter - rid of obstructions; "Clear your desk"activate - make active or more active; "activate an old file"activate - make (substances) radioactiveaerate, activate - aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter | | 2. | alter - become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"vary, changealternate, jump - go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditionscrackle - to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"modulate - vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)avianise, avianize - to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryomove - go or proceed from one point to another; "the debate moved from family values to the economy"adapt, accommodate - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose; "Adapt our native cuisine to the available food resources of the new country"widen, let out - make (clothes) larger; "Let out that dress--I gained a lot of weight"take in - make (clothes) smaller; "Please take in this skirt--I've lost weight"branch out, broaden, diversify - vary in order to spread risk or to expand; "The company diversified"diversify, radiate - spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate; "The plants on this island diversified"specialize, narrow down, narrow, specialise - become more focus on an area of activity or field of study; "She specializes in Near Eastern history"honeycomb - make full of cavities, like a honeycombbreak - vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity; "The flat plain was broken by tall mesas" | | 3. |  alter - make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered"alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" | | 4. | alter - insert words into texts, often falsifying it therebyinterpolate, falsifyedit, redact - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting; "Edit a book on lexical semantics"; "she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages" | | 5. |  alter - remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"neuter, spay, castratedefeminise, defeminize - remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)desex, desexualise, desexualize, sterilise, sterilize, unsex, fix - make infertile; "in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized" |
alterverb1. modify, change, reform, shift, vary, transform, adjust, adapt, revise, amend, diversify, remodel, tweak (informal), recast, reshape, metamorphose, transmute They have never altered their programmes.2. change, turn, vary, transform, adjust, adapt, metamorphose Little had altered in the village.alterverb1. To make or become different:change, modify, mutate, turn, vary.2. To render incapable of reproducing sexually:castrate, fix, geld, neuter, spay, sterilize, unsex.Translationsalter (ˈoːltə) verb to make or become different; to change. Will you alter this dress (to fit me)?; The town has altered a lot in the last two years. 改變 改变ˌalteˈration nounThe alterations he has made to the play have not improved it. 變動 改动alter
alter ego1. Another name or identity that one assumes. He's a clean-cut accountant during the week, but on the weekend he indulges in hedonistic pursuits as his alter ego "Jack."2. A separate or different aspect or element of one's personality, identity, or psyche. For such a quiet woman, she has a rage and temper at times that is like some alter ego.3. A close, inseparable friend of very similar attitudes and interests. My girlfriend and I are so similar, we are like each other's alter ego.4. A person who acts as a substitute for or copy of another person; a doppelgänger. Due to his increasingly failing health, the dictator's son has been running the country for the past month, essentially as his alter ego.See also: alter, egocircumstances alter casesUnique circumstances can spur unconventional action. I know offering such a big refund isn't protocol, but it's for the CEO's grandmother, and circumstances alter cases.See also: alter, case, circumstancechange beyond (all) recognitionTo change so much or so dramatically as to now be completely unfamiliar or unrecognizable. I wouldn't have recognized her if she hadn't introduced herself—she's really changed beyond all recognition since we were kids!See also: beyond, change, recognitionchange out of (all) recognitionTo change so much or so dramatically as to now be completely unfamiliar or unrecognizable. I wouldn't have recognized her if she hadn't introduced herself—she's really changed out of recognition since we were kids!See also: change, of, out, recognitionalter beyond (all) recognitionTo change so much or so dramatically as to now be completely unfamiliar or unrecognizable. She had shown me some early drafts, but her final copy was really altered beyond all recognition.See also: alter, beyond, recognitionalter out of (all) recognitionTo change so much or so dramatically as to now be completely unfamiliar or unrecognizable. She had shown me some early drafts, but her final copy was really altered out of recognition.See also: alter, of, out, recognitionCircumstances alter cases.Prov. In unusual situations, people are allowed to do unusual things. Cashier: I'm sorry, this store does not accept personal checks. Customer: But I need this medicine, and I don't have any cash. I've shopped at this store for fifteen years. Surely you can trust me this once. Cashier: Well, all right. Circumstances alter cases.See also: alter, case, Circumstancechange, alter, etc. beyond/out of (all) recogˈnition change, etc. such a lot that people do not recognize you, it, etc: I went back to Birmingham after 20 years and it had changed beyond all recognition. ♢ She had changed beyond all recognition since I last saw her.See also: beyond, of, out, recognitionalter
alter (ôl′tər)v. al·tered, al·tering, al·ters v.tr. To castrate or spay (an animal, such as a cat or a dog).v.intr. To change or become different.
al′ter·a·bil′i·ty, al′ter·a·ble·ness n.al′ter·a·ble adj.al′ter·a·bly adv.alter verb
(1) To castrate (obsolete).
(2) To change in any manner.AlterAn alternate or secondary personality in a patient with DID.Mentioned in: Multiple Personality DisorderAlter
TO ALTER. To change. Alterations are made either in the contract itself, orin the instrument which is evidence of it. The contract may at any time bealtered with the consent of the parties, and the alteration may be either inwriting or not in writing.
2. It is a general rule that the terms of a contract under seal,cannot be changed by a parol agreement. Cooke, 500; 3 Blackf. R. 353; 4Bibb. 1. But it has been decided that an alteration of a contract byspecialty, made by parol, makes it all parol. 2 Watts, 451; 1 Wash. R. 170;4 Cowen, 564; 3 Harr. & John. 438; 9 Pick. 298; 1 East, R. 619; but see 3S.& R. 579.
3. When the contract is, in writing, but not under seal, it may bevaried by parol, and the whole will make but one agreement. 9 Cowen, 115;5.N. H. Rep. 99; 6 Harr. & John, 38; 18 John. 420; 1 John. Cas. 22; 5 Cowen,606; Pet. C. C. R. 221; 1 Fairf. 414.
4. When the contract is evidenced by a specialty, and it is altered byparol, the whole will be considered as a parol agreement. 2 Watt 451; 9Pick. 298. For alteration of instruments see Erasure; Interlineation. See,generally, 7 Greenl. 76, 121, 394; 15 John. 200; 2 Penna. R. 454. FinancialSeeALTALTER
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| ALTER➣Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (EU) | | ALTER➣Acceptable Long-Term Exposure Range |
alter
Synonyms for alterverb modifySynonyms- modify
- change
- reform
- shift
- vary
- transform
- adjust
- adapt
- revise
- amend
- diversify
- remodel
- tweak
- recast
- reshape
- metamorphose
- transmute
verb changeSynonyms- change
- turn
- vary
- transform
- adjust
- adapt
- metamorphose
Synonyms for alterverb to make or become differentSynonyms- change
- modify
- mutate
- turn
- vary
verb to render incapable of reproducing sexuallySynonyms- castrate
- fix
- geld
- neuter
- spay
- sterilize
- unsex
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