alter
verb
1 alter
Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation:
— The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city.
Roget 140: change, alter, vary, wax and wane; modulate, diversify, qualify, tamper with; turn, shift, veer, tack, chop, shuffle, swerve, warp, deviate, turn aside, evert, intervert†; pass to, take a turn, turn the corner, resume. work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume†; metamorphose, ring the changes. innovate, introduce new blood, shuffle the cards; give a turn to, give a color to; influence, turn the scale; shift the scene, turn over a new leaf. recast etc. 146; reverse etc. 218; disturb etc. 61; convert into etc. 144. ... show more
is a broader term that covers: arouse, awaken, rouse, wake, wake up, waken | cause to sleep | affect | freshen, refresh, refreshen | fecundate, fertilise, fertilize, inseminate | indispose | cry | etiolate | shade | animalise, animalize, brutalise, brutalize | convert | opalise, opalize | arterialise, arterialize | get, make | counterchange, interchange, transpose | vascularise, vascularize | decrepitate | suburbanise, suburbanize | overturn, revolutionise, revolutionize | etiolate | barbarise, barbarize | alkalinise, alkalinize | mythicise, mythicize, mythologise, mythologize | allegorise, allegorize | demythologise, demythologize | bring, land | coarsen | affect, bear on, bear upon, impact, touch, touch on | alchemise, alchemize | alcoholise, alcoholize | form, shape | round, round down, round off, round out | suspend | sober | reconstruct | increase | ease off, ease up, let up | assimilate | dissimilate | commute, convert, exchange | vitalise, vitalize | clear, unclutter | activate | activate | activate, aerate | activate | deactivate, inactivate | blunt, deaden | reconstruct, redo, remodel | edit, redact | cut, edit, edit out | chasten, subdue, tame | chasten, temper | ameliorate, amend, better, improve, meliorate | aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate, worsen | wet | dry, dry out | lubricate | beef up, fortify, strengthen | fortify, lace, spike | weaken | blunt | oxidate, oxidise, oxidize | merge, unify, unite | age | mature, ripen | antiquate, antique | antiquate | develop, make grow | soften | damage | ossify | acerbate | stabilise, stabilize | destabilise, destabilize | sensibilise, sensibilize, sensify, sensitise, sensitize | desensitise, desensitize | accustom, habituate | disarray, disorder | discolor | color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize | stain | hue | uglify | untune | adjust, correct, set | set | disqualify, indispose, unfit | domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, reclaim, tame | widen | dehydrogenate | hydrogenate | oxygenise, oxygenize | darken | brighten, lighten, lighten up | blear, blur | bedim, obscure, overcloud | blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure, veil | cook | slenderise, slenderize | crack | dismiss, dissolve | end, terminate | defog, demist | concentrate, condense, contract | chill, cool, cool down | heat, heat up | warm | boil | freeze | blister | change over, shift, switch | transpose | change over, convert | transform | transform | transform | transmute | transform, transmute, transubstantiate | ash | transform, translate | reclaim, rectify, reform, regenerate | convert | Islamise, Islamize | invert, reverse, turn back | invert | customise, customize | individualise, individualize, personalise, personalize | depersonalise, depersonalize, objectify | sharpen | drop, flatten | disintegrate | magnetise, magnetize | degauss, demagnetise, demagnetize | simplify | complicate, elaborate, rarify, refine | refine | complicate, perplex | pressurise, pressurize, supercharge | centralise, centralize, concentrate | decentralise, decentralize, deconcentrate | socialise, socialize | fix, gear up, prepare, ready, set, set up | internationalise, internationalize | bolshevise, bolshevize, communise, communize | Europeanise, Europeanize | Europeanise, Europeanize | bestialise, bestialize | Americanise, Americanize | Frenchify | civilise, civilize | nationalise, nationalize | denationalise, denationalize | naturalise, naturalize | denaturalise, denaturalize | naturalise, naturalize | denaturalise, denaturalize | even, even out | equal, equalise, equalize, equate, match | stiffen | loose, loosen | fasten, tighten | transitivise, transitivize | detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise, intransitivize | inspissate, thicken | full | diversify | decelerate, slow down | deaden | accelerate, speed, speed up | check, delay, retard | decrease, lessen, minify | liquefy, liquidise, liquidize, liquify | solvate | dissolve | validate | invalidate, vitiate, void | empty | fill, fill up, make full | saturate | clot, coagulate | louden | normalise, normalize, renormalise, renormalize | morph | neutralise, neutralize | commercialise, commercialize, market | purge, purify, sanctify | mechanise, mechanize | automate, automatise, automatize | automatise, automatize | mechanise, mechanize | chord, harmonise, harmonize | polarise, polarize | glorify | contaminate | devalue | insulate | calcify | urbanise, urbanize | urbanise, urbanize | emulsify | demulsify | decarboxylate | nazify | fecundate, fertilise, fertilize | clarify | embrittle | mark | nick | disable, disenable, incapacitate | enable | de-emphasise, de-emphasize, destress | tender, tenderise, tenderize | charge | bubble | sweeten | iodinate | ionate | archaise, archaize | inform | officialise, officialize | occidentalise, occidentalize, westernise, westernize | orientalise, orientalize | acetylate, acetylise, acetylize | achromatise, achromatize | collimate, parallel | camp | classicise, classicize | conventionalise, conventionalize | decimalise, decimalize | dizzy | envenom, poison | exteriorise, exteriorize, externalise, externalize, objectify | glamorise, glamorize, glamourise, glamourize | introvert | laicise, laicize | politicise, politicize | radicalize | proof | romanticise, romanticize | rusticate | sauce | shallow, shoal | tense | steepen | scramble | unscramble | unsex | vitrify | pall | saponify | expand, extend | set aside, suspend | muddy | transform | elevate, lift, raise | harshen | dinge | demonise, demonize | devilise, devilize, diabolise, diabolize | etherealize, etherialise | immaterialise, immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize | animate, animise, animize | clear | dynamise, dynamize | dynamise, dynamize | rarefy, sublimate, subtilize | volatilise, volatilize | uniformise, uniformize | symmetrise, symmetrize | eternalise, eternalize, eternise, eternize, immortalise, immortalize | denature | denature | denature | sanitise, sanitize | verbify | shift | sputter | draw | make | dope | prostrate | excite | energise, energize, excite | shake | outmode | spice, spice up | shorten | think | make | deflate | inflate | reflate | digitalise, digitalize, digitise, digitize | gelatinise, gelatinize | recombine | effeminise, effeminize, feminise, feminize, womanize | masculinise, masculinize, virilise, virilize | masculinize | disharmonize, dissonate | sexualise, sexualize | schematise, schematize | patent | constitutionalise, constitutionalize | rationalise, rationalize | plasticise, plasticize | rarefy | paganise, paganize | incandesce | deaminate, deaminize | angulate | circularize | sensitise, sensitize | sensitise, sensitize | depolarise, depolarize | intensify | isomerise, isomerize | legitimate | evaporate, vaporise | industrialise, industrialize | opacify | opsonize | militarise, militarize | nationalise, nationalize | recommend | sentimentalise, sentimentalize | solemnise, solemnize | territorialise, territorialize | transaminate | glorify, spiritualize, transfigure | unsanctify | vesiculate | visualise, visualize | variegate | ventilate | vivify | vulgarise, vulgarize | supple | professionalise, professionalize | smut | still | weaponize | eroticize, sex up | piggyback | port | lifehack | cloud | blur, confuse, obnubilate, obscure | moderate, tame, tone down | obfuscate | synchronise, synchronize | mince, moderate, soften | militarise, militarize | break down, crush | fat, fatten, fatten out, fatten up, fill out, flesh out, plump, plump out | disturb, touch | dull | blunt, dull | sharpen | coarsen | loosen | loosen, undo, untie | barb | string | straighten, straighten out | bring | amalgamate, commix, mingle, mix, unify | charge | put | clean, make clean | begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil | depress, lower | deform | break, break up | alterv3 | adorn, beautify, decorate, embellish, grace, ornament | humanise, humanize | humble | alienate, disaffect, estrange | right | desensitise, desensitize | deodorise, deodorize, deodourise | develop | blur | blind | change intensity | change taste | exchange, interchange, replace, substitute | capture | add, bestow, bring, contribute, impart, lend | reestablish, reinstate, restore | liberalise, liberalize | compensate, correct, redress, right | democratise, democratize | neutralize | corrupt, debase, debauch, demoralise, demoralize, deprave, misdirect, pervert, profane, subvert, vitiate | loosen, relax | unify, unite | flocculate | turn | cohere ... show more.
cause: change.
derivation: change | adjustment, alteration, modification | change | alteration, change, modification | changer, modifier | change | change | alterable | modifiable.
Dutch: converteren, changeren, altereren, herscheppen, modificeren, omzetten, variëren, veranderen, wijzigen
2 alter
Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
is a broader term that covers: alternate, jump | crackle | modulate | avianise, avianize | move | accommodate, adapt | let out, widen | take in | branch out, broaden, diversify | diversify, radiate | narrow, narrow down, specialise, specialize | honeycomb | break ... show more.
derivation: change | change | edition, variant, variation, version | alteration, change, modification | change | change | variant | variable | variable, varying.
Dutch: fluctueren, variëren, wisselen
3 alter
Make an alteration to.
is a specific kind of: alterv1, change, modify.
entailment: sew, tailor, tailor-make.
derivation: adjustment, alteration, modification | alterable.
4 alter
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.
synonyms: falsify, interpolate.
is a specific kind of: edit, redact.
derivation: falsification, misrepresentation | interjection, interpellation, interpolation, interposition | insertion, interpolation | falsifier.
5 alter
Remove the ovaries of.
synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay.
Roget 158: be impotent etc. adj.; not have a leg to stand on. vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [Fr.], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [Fr.]. collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; go up in smoke, end in smoke etc. (fail) 732. render powerless etc. adj.; deprive of power; disable, disenable†; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple†, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten†, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat [Fr.], spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear. unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix. shatter, exhaust, weaken etc. 160. ... show more
is a specific kind of: desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex.
is a broader term that covers: defeminise, defeminize.
derivation: castration | altering, fixing, neutering | spaying | neuter.
Dutch: castreert, steriliseren, castreren
Moby thesaurus: abate, accommodate, adapt, adjust, adjust to, alter into, ameliorate, assuage, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, become, better, bottom out, box in, break, break up, castrate, change, change into, checker, chop, chop and change, circumscribe, come about, come around, come round, come round to, condition, convert, deform, degenerate, denature, deteriorate, deviate, diminish, diverge, diversify, emasculate, eunuchize, evolve into, fall into, fit, fix, flop, geld, haul around, hedge, hedge about, improve, jibe, lapse into, leaven, limit, meliorate, melt into, mitigate, moderate, modify, modulate, mutate, narrow, open into, overthrow, palliate, pass into, qualify, re-create, realign, rebuild, reconstruct, redesign, reduce, refit, reform, regulate by, remake, remodel, renew, reshape, restrain, restrict, restructure, revamp, revise, revive, ring the changes, ripen into, run into, season, set conditions, set limits, settle into, shift, shift into, shift the scene, shuffle the cards, soften, spay, subvert, swerve, tack, take a turn, temper, transform, turn, turn aside, turn into, turn the corner, turn the scale, turn the tables, turn the tide, turn to, turn upside down, undergo a change, unsex, vary, veer, warp, work a change, worsen ... show more.
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