alter

Meaning

1. To change the form or structure of.
2. To become different.
3. To tailor clothes to make them fit.
4. To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
5. To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.

change

modify

rectify

be changed

be transformed

move

revamp

be transfigured

castrate

make different

have a changed appearance

change into

become different

to change

be uncertain

change to

tamper with

transform into

be altered

adfect

be different

devolve

link together

Frequency

Hyphenated as

al‧ter

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɒl.tə/

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.