alter

1. v. t. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. Source: opted

2. v. t. To agitate; to affect mentally. Source: opted

3. v. t. To geld. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

5. v. cause to change; make different; cause a transformation Source: wordnet

6. v. become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence Source: wordnet

7. v. make an alteration to Source: wordnet

8. v. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby Source: wordnet

9. v. remove the ovaries of Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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. Source: adambom

12. v:100 v. make an alteration to v. remove the ovaries of Source: ecdict

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