alter
Plural: alters
Verb
Verb Forms: altered, altering, alters
- To make or become different; to change.
- cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"
- become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- make an alteration to
- "This dress needs to be altered"
- insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- remove the ovaries of
- To change the form or structure of.
- To become different.
- To tailor clothes to make them fit.
- To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
- To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
Noun
- One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity.
- Misspelling of altar.
Examples
- One new tile can alter the entire landscape of the Words with Friends board.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.
Synonyms
castrate, change, falsify, interpolate, modify, neuter, spay, vary, adapt, alter, amend, convert, differentiate, headmate, innovate, metamorphose, revamp, rework, transform, transmogrify, transume, variate
Antonyms
leave alone, leave be, let alone, let be, preserve
Scrabble Score: 5
alter: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordalter: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
alter: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary