» alter
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Verb (5 meanings)
Examples:
- “The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city”,
- “The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue”
ways to alter:
- to Americanize, Americanise (verb) - make American in character
- to Europeanize, Europeanise (verb) - make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas
- to Europeanize, Europeanise (verb) - denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations
- to Frenchify (verb) - make French in appearance or character
- to Islamize, Islamise (verb) - cause to conform to Islamic law
- to accelerate, speed, speed up (verb) - cause to move faster
- to acerbate (verb) - make sour or bitter
- to acetylate, acetylize, acetylise (verb) - introduce an acetyl group into (a chemical compound)
- to achromatize, achromatise (verb) - remove color from
- to activate (verb) - make active or more active
- to activate (verb) - make (substances) radioactive
- to activate, aerate (verb) - aerate (sewage) so as to favor the growth of organisms that decompose organic matter
- to activate (verb) - make more adsorptive
- to adjust, set, correct (verb) - alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard
- to affect (verb) - act physically on
- to affect, impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch (verb) - have an effect upon
- to age (verb) - make older
- to alchemize, alchemise (verb) - alter (elements) by alchemy
- to alcoholize, alcoholise (verb) - make alcoholic, as by fermenting
- to alkalinize, alkalinise (verb) - make (a substance) alkaline
- to allegorize, allegorise (verb) - make into an allegory
- to alter (verb) - make an alteration to
- to angulate (verb) - make or become angular
- to animize, animise, animate (verb) - give lifelike qualities to
- to antiquate (verb) - make obsolete or old-fashioned
- to antique, antiquate (verb) - give an antique appearance to
- to archaize, archaise (verb) - give an archaic appearance of character to
- to arterialize, arterialise (verb) - change venous blood into arterial blood
- to ash (verb) - convert into ashes
- to assimilate (verb) - make similar
- to automatize, automatise, automate (verb) - make automatic or control or operate automatically
- to automatize, automatise (verb) - turn into an automaton
- to awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse (verb) - cause to become awake or conscious
- to barb (verb) - provide with barbs
- to barbarize, barbarise (verb) - make crude or savage in behavior or speech
- to bestialize, bestialise (verb) - make brutal and depraved
- to better, improve, amend, ameliorate, meliorate (verb) - to make better
- to blind (verb) - make blind by putting the eyes out
- to blister (verb) - cause blisters to form on
- to blunt (verb) - make less sharp
- to blur, blear (verb) - make dim or indistinct
- to blur (verb) - to make less distinct or clear
- to boil (verb) - bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point
- to break, break up (verb) - destroy the completeness of a set of related items
- to break down, crush (verb) - make ineffective
- to brighten, lighten up, lighten (verb) - make lighter or brighter
- to bring, land (verb) - bring into a different state
- to bring (verb) - cause to come into a particular state or condition
- to brutalize, brutalise, animalize, animalise (verb) - make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman
- to bubble (verb) - cause to form bubbles
- to calcify (verb) - convert into lime
- to camp (verb) - give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
- to capture (verb) - bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
- to cause to sleep (verb) - make fall asleep
- to centralize, centralise, concentrate (verb) - make central
- to change intensity (verb) - increase or decrease in intensity
- to change taste (verb) - alter the flavor of
- to charge (verb) - cause formation of a net electrical charge in or on
- to charge (verb) - fill or load to capacity
- to chasten, moderate, temper (verb) - restrain
- to check, retard, delay (verb) - slow the growth or development of
- to circularize (verb) - make circular
- to civilize, civilise (verb) - raise from a barbaric to a civilized state
- to clarify (verb) - make clear by removing impurities or solids, as by heating
- to classicize, classicise (verb) - make classic or classical
- to clean, make clean (verb) - make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
- to clear (verb) - make clear, bright, light, or translucent
- to clot, coagulate (verb) - cause to change from a liquid to a solid or thickened state
- to cloud (verb) - make less clear
- to coarsen (verb) - make less subtle or refined
- to coarsen (verb) - make or become coarse or coarser
- to cohere (verb) - cause to form a united, orderly, and aesthetically consistent whole
- to color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in (verb) - add color to
- to commercialize, commercialise, market (verb) - make commercial
- to communize, communise, bolshevize, bolshevise (verb) - make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles
- to commute, convert, exchange (verb) - exchange a penalty for a less severe one
- to complicate, refine, rarify, elaborate (verb) - make more complex, intricate, or richer
- to complicate, perplex (verb) - make more complicated
- to condense, concentrate, contract (verb) - compress or concentrate
- to confuse, blur, obscure, obnubilate (verb) - make unclear, indistinct, or blurred
- to constitutionalize, constitutionalise (verb) - incorporate into a constitution, make constitutional
- to contaminate (verb) - make radioactive by adding radioactive material
- to conventionalize, conventionalise (verb) - make conventional or adapt to conventions
- to convert (verb) - change the nature, purpose, or function of something
- to convert, change over (verb) - change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy
- to convert (verb) - cause to adopt a new or different faith
- to cook (verb) - transform by heating
- to cool, chill, cool down (verb) - make cool or cooler
- to corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect (verb) - corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
- to counterchange, transpose, interchange (verb) - cause to change places
- to crack (verb) - cause to become cracked
- to cry (verb) - bring into a particular state by crying
- to customize, customise (verb) - make according to requirements
- to damage (verb) - inflict damage upon
- to darken (verb) - make dark or darker
- to de-emphasize, de-emphasise, destress (verb) - reduce the emphasis
- to deaden, blunt (verb) - make less lively, intense, or vigorous
- to deaden (verb) - make vapid or deprive of spirit
- to deaminate, deaminize (verb) - remove the amino radical (usually by hydrolysis) from an amino compound
- to decarboxylate (verb) - remove a carboxyl group from (a chemical compound)
- to decelerate, slow down (verb) - reduce the speed of
- to decentralize, deconcentrate, decentralise (verb) - make less central
- to decimalize, decimalise (verb) - change from fractions to decimals
- to decorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify (verb) - make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
- to decrease, lessen, minify (verb) - make smaller
- to decrepitate (verb) - to roast or calcine so as to cause to crackle or until crackling stops
- to deflate (verb) - produce deflation in
- to deform (verb) - make formless
- to dehydrogenate (verb) - remove hydrogen from
- to demagnetize, demagnetise, degauss (verb) - make nonmagnetic
- to demist, defog (verb) - free from mist
- to democratize, democratise (verb) - introduce democratic reforms
- to demonize, demonise (verb) - make into a demon
- to demulsify (verb) - cause to demulsify
- to demythologize, demythologise (verb) - remove the mythical element from (writings)
- to denationalize, denationalise (verb) - put under private control or ownership
- to denaturalize, denaturalise (verb) - strip of the rights and duties of citizenship
- to denaturalize, denaturalise (verb) - make less natural or unnatural
- to denature (verb) - make (alcohol) unfit for drinking without impairing usefulness for other purposes
- to denature (verb) - modify (as a native protein) especially by heat, acid, alkali, or ultraviolet radiation so that all of the original properties are removed or diminished
- to denature (verb) - add nonfissionable material to (fissionable material) so as to make unsuitable for use in an atomic bomb
- to deodorize, deodorise, deodourise (verb) - eliminate the odor from
- to depersonalize, depersonalise, objectify (verb) - make impersonal or present as an object
- to depolarize, depolarise (verb) - eliminate the polarization of
- to desensitize, desensitise (verb) - make insensitive
- to desensitize, desensitise (verb) - cause not to be sensitive
- to destabilize, destabilise (verb) - make unstable
- to detransitivize, detransitivise, intransitivize, intransitivise (verb) - intransitivize
- to devalue (verb) - lower the value or quality of
- to develop, make grow (verb) - cause to grow and differentiate in ways conforming to its natural development
- to develop (verb) - make visible by means of chemical solutions
- to devilize, devilise, diabolize, diabolise (verb) - turn into a devil or make devilish
- to digitize, digitise, digitalize, digitalise (verb) - put into digital form, as for use in a computer
- to dinge (verb) - make dingy
- to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire (verb) - make soiled, filthy, or dirty
- to disable, disenable, incapacitate (verb) - make unable to perform a certain action
- to discolor (verb) - cause to lose or change color
- to disharmonize, dissonate (verb) - cause to sound harsh and unpleasant
- to disintegrate (verb) - cause to undergo fission or lose particles
- to disorder, disarray (verb) - bring disorder to
- to disqualify, unfit, indispose (verb) - make unfit or unsuitable
- to dissimilate (verb) - make dissimilar
- to dissolve, dismiss (verb) - declare void
- to dissolve (verb) - cause to fade away
- to diversify (verb) - make (more) diverse
- to dizzy (verb) - make dizzy or giddy
- to domesticate, domesticize, domesticise, reclaim, tame (verb) - overcome the wildness of
- to dope (verb) - add impurities to (a semiconductor) in order to produce or modify its properties
- to draw (verb) - bring or lead someone to a certain action or condition
- to dry, dry out (verb) - remove the moisture from and make dry
- to dull (verb) - make dull in appearance
- to dull, blunt (verb) - make dull or blunt
- to dynamize, dynamise (verb) - make (a drug) effective
- to dynamize, dynamise (verb) - make more dynamic
- to ease up, ease off, let up (verb) - reduce pressure or intensity
- to edit, redact (verb) - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- to edit, cut, edit out (verb) - cut and assemble the components of
- to embrittle (verb) - make brittle
- to empty (verb) - make void or empty of contents
- to emulsify (verb) - cause to become an emulsion
- to enable (verb) - render capable or able for some task
- to end, terminate (verb) - bring to an end or halt
- to equal, match, equalize, equalise, equate (verb) - make equal, uniform, corresponding, or matching
- to eroticize, sex up (verb) - give erotic character to or make more interesting
- to estrange, alienate, alien, disaffect (verb) - arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
- to etherealize, etherialise (verb) - make ethereal
- to etiolate (verb) - make pale or sickly
- to etiolate (verb) - bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight
- to evaporate, vaporise (verb) - cause to change into a vapor
- to even, even out (verb) - become even or more even
- to excite (verb) - produce a magnetic field in
- to excite, energize, energise (verb) - raise to a higher energy level
- to extend, expand (verb) - expand the influence of
- to exteriorize, exteriorise, externalize, externalise, objectify (verb) - make external or objective, or give reality to
- to fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up (verb) - make fat or plump
- to feminize, feminise, effeminize, effeminise, womanize (verb) - to give a (more) feminine, effeminate, or womanly quality or appearance to
- to fertilize, fecundate, fertilise (verb) - make fertile or productive
- to fill, fill up, make full (verb) - make full, also in a metaphorical sense
- to fix, prepare, set up, ready, gear up, set (verb) - make ready or suitable or equip in advance for a particular purpose or for some use, event, etc
- to flatten, drop (verb) - lower the pitch of (musical notes)
- to flocculate (verb) - cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate
- to freeze (verb) - cause to freeze
- to full (verb) - make (a garment) fuller by pleating or gathering
- to gelatinize, gelatinise (verb) - convert into gelatinous form or jelly
- to glamorize, glamourise, glamourize, glamorise (verb) - make glamorous and attractive
- to glorify (verb) - bestow glory upon
- to habituate, accustom (verb) - make psychologically or physically used (to something)
- to harmonize, harmonise, chord (verb) - bring into consonance, harmony, or accord while making music or singing
- to harshen (verb) - make harsh or harsher
- to heat, heat up (verb) - make hot or hotter
- to hue (verb) - take on color or become colored
- to humanize, humanise (verb) - make more humane
- to humble (verb) - cause to be unpretentious
- to hydrogenate (verb) - combine or treat with or expose to hydrogen
- to immaterialize, immaterialise, unsubstantialize, unsubstantialise (verb) - render immaterial or incorporeal
- to immortalize, immortalise, eternize, eternise, eternalize, eternalise (verb) - make famous forever
- to inactivate, deactivate (verb) - make inactive
- to incandesce (verb) - cause to become incandescent or glow
- to increase (verb) - make bigger or more
- to indispose (verb) - cause to feel unwell
- to industrialize, industrialise (verb) - organize (the production of something) into an industry
- to inflate (verb) - cause prices to rise by increasing the available currency or credit
- to inform (verb) - give character or essence to
- to inseminate, fecundate, fertilize, fertilise (verb) - introduce semen into (a female)
- to insulate (verb) - protect from heat, cold, or noise by surrounding with insulating material
- to intensify (verb) - make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
- to internationalize, internationalise (verb) - make international in character
- to introvert (verb) - turn inside
- to invalidate, void, vitiate (verb) - take away the legal force of or render ineffective
- to invert (verb) - make an inversion (in a musical composition)
- to iodinate (verb) - cause to combine with iodine
- to ionate (verb) - add ions to
- to isomerize, isomerise (verb) - cause to change into an isomer
- to laicize, laicise (verb) - reduce to lay status
- to legitimate (verb) - make (an illegitimate child) legitimate
- to lend, impart, bestow, contribute, add, bring (verb) - bestow a quality on
- to liberalize, liberalise (verb) - make liberal or more liberal, of laws and rules
- to lifehack (verb) - make one's day-to-day activities more efficient
- to lift, raise, elevate (verb) - raise in rank or condition
- to liquefy, liquify, liquidize, liquidise (verb) - make (a solid substance) liquid, as by heating
- to loosen, loose (verb) - make loose or looser
- to loosen (verb) - make less dense
- to louden (verb) - cause to become loud
- to lower, depress (verb) - cause to drop or sink
- to lubricate (verb) - make slippery or smooth through the application of a lubricant
- to magnetize, magnetise (verb) - make magnetic
- to make, get (verb) - give certain properties to something
- to make (verb) - change from one form into another
- to make (verb) - cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable
- to mark (verb) - make or leave a mark on
- to masculinize, masculinise, virilize, virilise (verb) - produce virilism in or cause to assume masculine characteristics, as through a hormonal imbalance or hormone therapy
- to masculinize (verb) - give a masculine appearance or character to
- to mechanize, mechanise (verb) - make mechanical
- to mechanize, mechanise (verb) - make monotonous
- to militarize, militarise (verb) - adopt for military use
- to militarize, militarise (verb) - lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force
- to mince, soften, moderate (verb) - make less severe or harsh
- to mix, mingle, commix, unify, amalgamate (verb) - to bring or combine together or with something else
- to morph (verb) - cause to change shape in a computer animation
- to muddy (verb) - make turbid
- to mythologize, mythologise, mythicize, mythicise (verb) - make into a myth
- to nationalize, nationalise (verb) - put under state control or ownership
- to nationalize, nationalise (verb) - make national in character or scope
- to naturalize, naturalise (verb) - make into a citizen
- to naturalize, naturalise (verb) - make more natural or lifelike
- to nazify (verb) - cause or force to adopt Nazism or a Nazi character
- to neutralize, neutralise (verb) - make chemically neutral
- to neutralize (verb) - make politically neutral and thus inoffensive
- to nick (verb) - divide or reset the tail muscles of
- to normalize, normalise, renormalize, renormalise (verb) - make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard
- to obfuscate (verb) - make obscure or unclear
- to obscure, bedim, overcloud (verb) - make obscure or unclear
- to obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide (verb) - make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- to occidentalize, occidentalise, westernize, westernise (verb) - make western in character
- to officialize, officialise (verb) - make official
- to opacify (verb) - make opaque
- to opalize, opalise (verb) - make opalescent
- to opsonize (verb) - make (cells) more susceptible to the action of phagocytes
- to orientalize, orientalise (verb) - make oriental in character
- to ossify (verb) - cause to become hard and bony
- to outmode (verb) - make unfashionable, outdated, or obsolete
- to oxidize, oxidise, oxidate (verb) - add oxygen to or combine with oxygen
- to oxygenize, oxygenise (verb) - change (a compound) by increasing the proportion of the electronegative part
- to paganize, paganise (verb) - make pagan in character
- to pall (verb) - cause to become flat
- to parallel, collimate (verb) - make or place parallel to something
- to patent (verb) - make open to sight or notice
- to personalize, personalise, individualize, individualise (verb) - make personal or more personal
- to piggyback (verb) - bring into alignment with
- to plasticize, plasticise (verb) - make plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- to poison, envenom (verb) - add poison to
- to polarize, polarise (verb) - cause to vibrate in a definite pattern
- to politicize, politicise (verb) - give a political character to
- to port (verb) - modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform
- to professionalize, professionalise (verb) - make professional or give a professional character to
- to proof (verb) - activate by mixing with water and sometimes sugar or milk
- to prostrate (verb) - render helpless or defenseless
- to purify, purge, sanctify (verb) - make pure or free from sin or guilt
- to put (verb) - cause to be in a certain state
- to radicalize (verb) - make more radical in social or political outlook
- to rarefy, sublimate, subtilize (verb) - make more subtle or refined
- to rarefy (verb) - lessen the density or solidity of
- to rationalize, rationalise (verb) - remove irrational quantities from
- to recombine (verb) - cause genetic recombination
- to recommend (verb) - make attractive or acceptable
- to reconstruct (verb) - cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically
- to refine (verb) - make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of
- to reflate (verb) - economics: raise demand, expand the money supply, or raise prices, after a period of deflation
- to reform, reclaim, regenerate, rectify (verb) - bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one
- to refresh, freshen, refreshen (verb) - make fresh again
- to relax, loosen (verb) - make less severe or strict
- to remodel, reconstruct, redo (verb) - do over, as of (part of) a house
- to restore, reinstate, reestablish (verb) - bring back into original existence, use, function, or position
- to revolutionize, revolutionise, overturn (verb) - change radically
- to right (verb) - put in or restore to an upright position
- to right, compensate, redress, correct (verb) - make reparations or amends for
- to ripen, mature (verb) - cause to ripen or develop fully
- to romanticize, romanticise (verb) - make romantic in style
- to round off, round down, round out, round (verb) - express as a round number
- to rusticate (verb) - lend a rustic character to
- to sanitize, sanitise (verb) - make less offensive or more acceptable by removing objectionable features
- to saponify (verb) - convert into soap by hydrolizing an ester into an acid and alcohol as a result of treating it with an alkali
- to saturate (verb) - cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance
- to sauce (verb) - add zest or flavor to, make more interesting
- to schematize, schematise (verb) - give conventional form to
- to scramble (verb) - make unintelligible
- to sensitize, sensitise, sensify, sensibilize, sensibilise (verb) - make sensitive or aware
- to sensitize, sensitise (verb) - make (a material) sensitive to light, often of a particular colour, by coating it with a photographic emulsion
- to sensitize, sensitise (verb) - make sensitive to a drug or allergen
- to sentimentalize, sentimentalise (verb) - make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities
- to set (verb) - put into a certain state
- to sexualize, sexualise (verb) - make sexual, endow with sex, attribute sex to
- to shade (verb) - vary slightly
- to shake (verb) - bring to a specified condition by or as if by shaking
- to shallow, shoal (verb) - make shallow
- to shape, form (verb) - give shape or form to
- to sharpen (verb) - raise the pitch of (musical notes)
- to sharpen (verb) - make sharp or sharper
- to shift (verb) - move from one setting or context to another
- to shorten (verb) - make short or shorter
- to simplify (verb) - make simpler or easier or reduce in complexity or extent
- to slenderize, slenderise (verb) - make slender or appear to be slender
- to smut (verb) - make obscene
- to sober (verb) - cause to become sober
- to socialize, socialise (verb) - make conform to socialist ideas and philosophies
- to soften (verb) - make soft or softer
- to solemnize, solemnise (verb) - make solemn and grave
- to solvate (verb) - cause a solvation in (a substance)
- to spice, spice up (verb) - make more interesting or flavorful
- to spike, lace, fortify (verb) - add alcohol to (beverages)
- to sputter (verb) - cause to undergo a process in which atoms are removed
- to stabilize, stabilise (verb) - make stable and keep from fluctuating or put into an equilibrium
- to stain (verb) - produce or leave stains
- to steepen (verb) - make steeper
- to stiffen (verb) - make stiff or stiffer
- to still (verb) - make motionless
- to straighten, straighten out (verb) - make straight
- to strengthen, beef up, fortify (verb) - make strong or stronger
- to string (verb) - provide with strings
- to substitute, replace, interchange, exchange (verb) - put in the place of another
- to suburbanize, suburbanise (verb) - make suburban in character
- to supercharge, pressurize, pressurise (verb) - increase the pressure on a gas or liquid
- to supple (verb) - make pliant and flexible
- to suspend (verb) - cause to be held in suspension in a fluid
- to suspend, set aside (verb) - make inoperative or stop
- to sweeten (verb) - make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable
- to switch, change over, shift (verb) - make a shift in or exchange of
- to symmetrize, symmetrise (verb) - make symmetric
- to synchronize, synchronise (verb) - make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action
- to tame, chasten, subdue (verb) - correct by punishment or discipline
- to tender, tenderize, tenderise (verb) - make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer
- to tense (verb) - increase the tension on
- to territorialize, territorialise (verb) - place on a territorial basis
- to thicken, inspissate (verb) - make thick or thicker
- to think (verb) - bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation
- to tighten, fasten (verb) - make tight or tighter
- to tone down, moderate, tame (verb) - make less strong or intense
- to touch, disturb (verb) - tamper with
- to transaminate (verb) - change (an amino group) by transferring it from one compound to another
- to transfigure, glorify, spiritualize (verb) - elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- to transform (verb) - increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)
- to transform (verb) - change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species
- to transform (verb) - convert (one form of energy) to another
- to transform, transmute, transubstantiate (verb) - change or alter in form, appearance, or nature
- to transform (verb) - subject to a mathematical transformation
- to transitivize, transitivise (verb) - make transitive
- to translate, transform (verb) - change from one form or medium into another
- to transmute (verb) - alter the nature of (elements)
- to transpose (verb) - change key
- to turn (verb) -
- to turn back, invert, reverse (verb) - turn inside out or upside down
- to uglify (verb) - make ugly
- to unclutter, clear (verb) - rid of obstructions
- to uniformize, uniformise (verb) - make uniform
- to unite, unify, merge (verb) - join or combine
- to unite, unify (verb) - bring together for a common purpose or action or ideology or in a shared situation
- to unsanctify (verb) - remove the sanctification from or make unsanctified
- to unscramble (verb) - make intelligible
- to unsex (verb) - remove the qualities typical of one's sex
- to untie, undo, loosen (verb) - cause to become loose
- to untune (verb) - cause to be out of tune
- to urbanize, urbanise (verb) - make more industrial or city-like
- to urbanize, urbanise (verb) - impart urban habits, ways of life, or responsibilities upon
- to validate (verb) - make valid or confirm the validity of
- to variegate (verb) - change the appearance of, especially by marking with different colors
- to vascularize, vascularise (verb) - make vascular
- to ventilate (verb) - furnish with an opening to allow air to circulate or gas to escape
- to verbify (verb) - make into a verb
- to vesiculate (verb) - cause to become vesicular or full of air cells
- to visualize, visualise (verb) - make visible
- to vitalize, vitalise (verb) - give life to
- to vitrify (verb) - change into glass or a glass-like substance by applying heat
- to vivify (verb) - make more striking or animated
- to volatilize, volatilise (verb) - make volatile
- to vulgarise, vulgarize (verb) - debase and make vulgar
- to warm (verb) - make warm or warmer
- to weaken (verb) - lessen the strength of
- to weaponize (verb) - make into or use as a weapon or a potential weapon
- to wet (verb) - cause to become wet
- to widen (verb) - make wider
- to worsen, aggravate, exacerbate, exasperate (verb) - make worse
to alter is derivationally related to:
- alterable (adjective) - capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic
- alteration, modification, adjustment (noun) - the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
- change (noun) - the action of changing something
- change (noun) - a thing that is different
- change, alteration, modification (noun) - an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- change (noun) - the result of alteration or modification
- change (noun) - a relational difference between states
- changer, modifier (noun) - a person who changes something
- modifiable (adjective) -
Cause:
- to change (verb) - undergo a change
2. become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
Examples:
- “her mood changes in accordance with the weather”,
- “The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season”
ways to alter:
- to adapt, accommodate (verb) - make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose
- to alternate, jump (verb) - go back and forth
- to avianize, avianise (verb) - to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo
- to break (verb) - vary or interrupt a uniformity or continuity
- to crackle (verb) - to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks
- to diversify, branch out, broaden (verb) - vary in order to spread risk or to expand
- to diversify, radiate (verb) - spread into new habitats and produce variety or variegate
- to honeycomb (verb) - make full of cavities, like a honeycomb
- to let out, widen (verb) - make (clothes) larger
- to modulate (verb) - vary the frequency, amplitude, phase, or other characteristic of (electromagnetic waves)
- to move (verb) - go or proceed from one point to another
- to specialize, specialise, narrow, narrow down (verb) - become more focus on an area of activity or field of study
- to take in (verb) - make (clothes) smaller
to alter is derivationally related to:
- change (noun) - the action of changing something
- change (noun) - a thing that is different
- change, alteration, modification (noun) - an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
- change (noun) - the result of alteration or modification
- change (noun) - a relational difference between states
3. make an alteration to.
to alter
Example:
- “This dress needs to be altered”
to alter is a way to:
to alter is derivationally related to:
- alterable (adjective) - capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic
- alteration, modification, adjustment (noun) - the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
to alter entails:
- to sew, tailor, tailor-make (verb) - create (clothes) with cloth
4. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.
to interpolate, alter, falsify
to alter is a way to:
- to edit, redact (verb) - prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
to alter is derivationally related to:
- falsification, misrepresentation (noun) - a willful perversion of facts
- falsifier (noun) - someone who falsifies
- interjection, interposition, interpolation, interpellation (noun) - the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts
- interpolation, insertion (noun) - a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted
Example:
- “Is your cat spayed?”
to alter is a way to:
- to sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix (verb) - make infertile
ways to alter:
- to defeminize, defeminise (verb) - remove the ovaries of (female mammals such as cats)
to alter is derivationally related to:
- castration (noun) - surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)
- neuter (noun) - a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine)
- neutering, fixing, altering (noun) - the sterilization of an animal
- spaying (noun) - neutering a female by removing the ovaries