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alter > 5 senses
VERB1alter, change, modifyCause to change
2alter, change, varyMake or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
3alterMake an alteration to
4alter, interpolate, falsifyInsert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
5alter, neuter, spay, castrateRemove the ovaries of
alter > pronunciation
Soundsao'lter
Rhymesabductor, accelerator, accelerometer, and 628 more rhymes in ter...
alter > verb 1, change
MeaningCause to change. Make different. Cause a transformation.
PatternSomebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Examples"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"
Synonymschange, modify
Cause tochange
Narrowerawaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse; cause to sleep; affect; refresh, freshen, refreshen; inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise; indispose; cry; etiolate; brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise; convert; opalize, opalise; arterialize, arterialise; make, get; counterchange, transpose, interchange; vascularize, vascularise; decrepitate; suburbanize, suburbanise; revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn; etiolate; barbarize, barbarise; alkalinize, alkalinise; mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise; allegorize, allegorise; demythologize, demythologise; bring, land; coarsen; affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch; alchemize, alchemise; alcoholize, alcoholise; shape, form; round off, round down, round out, round; suspend; sober; reconstruct; increase; ease up, ease off, let up; assimilate; dissimilate; commute, convert, exchange; vitalize, vitalise; unclutter, clear; activate; activate; activate, aerate; activate; inactivate, deactivate; deaden, blunt; 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extend, expand; suspend, set aside; muddy; transform; lift, raise, elevate; harshen; dinge; demonize, demonise; devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise; etherealize, etherialise; immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise; animize, animise, animate; clear; dynamize, dynamise; dynamize, dynamise; rarefy, sublimate, subtilize; volatilize, volatilise; uniformize, uniformise; symmetrize, symmetrise; immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise; denature; denature; denature; sanitize, sanitise; verbify; shift; sputter; draw; make; dope; prostrate; excite; excite, energize, energise; shake; outmode; spice, spice up; shorten; think; make; deflate; inflate; reflate; digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise; gelatinize, gelatinise; recombine; feminize, feminise, effeminize, erreminise, womanize; masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise; masculinize; disharmonize, dissonate; sexualize, sexualise; schematize, schematise; patent; constitutionalize, constitutionalise; rationalize, rationalise; plasticize, plasticise; rarefy; paganize, paganise; incandesce; deaminate, deaminize; angulate; circularize; sensitize, sensitise; sensitize, sensitise; depolarize, depolarise; intensify; isomerize, isomerise; legitimate; evaporate, vaporise; industrialize, industrialise; opacify; opsonize; militarize, militarise; nationalize, nationalise; recommend; sentimentalize, sentimentalise; solemnize, solemnise; territorialize, territorialise; transaminate; transfigure, glorify, spiritualize; unsanctify; vesiculate; visualize, visualise; variegate; ventilate; vivify; vulgarise, vulgarize; supple; professionalize, professionalise; smut; still; weaponize; eroticize, sex up; piggyback; confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate; confuse; tone down, moderate, tame; obfuscate; synchronize, synchronise; mince, soften, moderate; militarize, militarise; break down, crush; fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up; touch, disturb; dull; dull, blunt; sharpen; coarsen; loosen; untie, undo, loosen; barb; string; straighten, straighten out; bring; mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate; charge; put; clean, make clean; dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire; lower, depress; deform; break, break up; alter; decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify; humanize, humanise; humble; estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect; right; desensitize, desensitise; deodorize, deodorise, deodourise; develop; blur; blind; change intensity; change taste; capture; lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring; restore, reinstate, reestablish; liberalize, liberalise; right, compensate, redress, correct; democratize, democratise; neutralize; corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect; relax, loosen; unite, unify; flocculate; turn; make possible; cohere
Adjectivesalterable
Nounsalteration; alteration
alter > verb 2, change
MeaningMake or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
PatternSomething ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something
Synonymschange, vary
Narroweralternate, jump; crackle; modulate; avianize, avianise; move; adapt, accommodate; let out, widen; take in; diversify, branch out, broaden; diversify, radiate; specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down; honeycomb; break
alter > verb 3, creation
MeaningMake an alteration to.
PatternSomebody ----s something
ModelThey alter the cape
Examples"This dress needs to be altered"
Broaderchange, alter, modify
Entailssew, tailor, tailor-make
Adjectivesalterable
Nounsalteration
alter > verb 4, change
MeaningInsert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.
PatternSomebody ----s something
Synonymsinterpolate, falsify
Broaderedit, redact
alter > verb 5, body
MeaningRemove the ovaries of.
PatternSomebody ----s somebody
Synonymsneuter, spay, castrate
Broadersterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
Narrowerdefeminize, defeminise

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