Thesaurus: alter

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1. v. t. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
2. v. t. To agitate; to affect mentally.
3. v. t. To geld.
4. v. i. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
5. v. cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
6. v. become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
7. v. make an alteration to
8. v. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
9. v. remove the ovaries of
10. 1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34. 2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] Milton. 3. To geld. [Colloq.] Syn. -- Change, Alter. Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.
11. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as,the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure."The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.
12. v:100 v. make an alteration to v. remove the ovaries of