Synonyms of the word alter


ALTERALTER - CASTRATE - CHANGE - DESEX - DESEXUALISE - DESEXUALIZE - EDIT - FALSIFY - FIX - INTERPOLATE - MODIFY - NEUTER - REDACT - SPAY - STERILISE - STERILIZE - UNSEX - VARY

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

alter

  • v. (transitive) To change the form or structure of.
  • v. (intransitive) To become different.
  • v. (transitive) To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  • v. (transitive) To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.

castrate

  • n. A castrated man; a eunuch.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the testicles of an animal.
  • v. (transitive) To remove the ovaries and/or uterus of an animal.

change

  • v. (intransitive) To become something different.
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To make something into something different.
  • v. (transitive) To replace.
  • v. (intransitive) To replace one's clothing.
  • v. (intransitive) To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.).
  • v. (archaic) To exchange.
  • v. (transitive) To change hand while riding (a horse).
  • n. (countable) The process of becoming different.
  • n. (uncountable) Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination.
  • n. (countable) A replacement, e.g. a change of clothes.
  • n. (uncountable) Money given back when a customer hands over more than the exact price of an item.
  • n. (uncountable) Coins (as opposed to paper money).
  • n. (countable) A transfer between vehicles.
  • n. (baseball) A change-up pitch.
  • n. (campanology) Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale.
  • n. (dated) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; an exchange.
  • n. (Scotland, dated) A public house; an alehouse.

desex

  • v. (transitive) To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization.

desexualise

  • v. Alternative spelling of desexualize.

desexualize

  • v. (transitive) To divest of sexual attributes; to make conceptually asexual.

edit

  • n. A change to the text of a document.
  • n. (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
  • v. To change a text, or a document.
  • v. (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
  • v. (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, programme etc.
  • v. (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
  • v. To alter a film by cutting and splicing frames.

falsify

  • v. (transitive) To alter so as to make false; to make incorrect.
  • v. (transitive) To misrepresent.
  • v. (transitive) To prove to be false.
  • v. (transitive) To counterfeit; to forge.
  • v. (transitive, finance) To show, in accounting, (an item of charge inserted in an account) to be wrong.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To baffle or escape.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To violate; to break by falsehood.

fix

  • n. A repair or corrective action.
  • n. A difficult situation; a quandary or dilemma.
  • n. (informal) A single dose of an addictive drug administered to a drug user.
  • n. A prearrangement of the outcome of a supposedly competitive process, such as a sporting event, a game,…
  • n. A determination of location.
  • n. (US) fettlings (mixture used to line a furnace).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix.
  • v. (transitive) To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time.
  • v. (transitive) To mend, to repair.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To prepare (food).
  • v. (transitive) To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular…
  • v. (transitive, US, informal) To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile.
  • v. (transitive, mathematics, sematics) To map a (point or subset) to itself.
  • v. (transitive, informal) To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will…
  • v. (transitive, chemistry, biology) To convert into a stable or available form.
  • v. (intransitive) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • v. (intransitive) To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal;…

interpolate

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To introduce (something) between other things; especially to insert words into…
  • v. (mathematics) To estimate the value of a function between two points between which it is tabulated.
  • v. (computing) During the course of processing some data, and in response to a directive in that data, to…

modify

  • v. (transitive) To make partial changes to.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or become modified.

neuter

  • adj. (archaic) Neither the one thing nor the other; on neither side; impartial; neutral.
  • adj. (grammar) Having a form which is not masculine nor feminine; or having a form which is not of common gender.
  • adj. (grammar) Intransitive.
  • adj. (biology) Sexless: having no or imperfectly developed sex organs.
  • n. (biology) An organism, either vegetable or animal, which at its maturity has no generative organs, or…
  • n. A person who takes no part in a contest; someone remaining neutral.
  • n. (grammar) The neuter gender.
  • n. (grammar) A noun of the neuter gender; any one of those words which have the terminations usually found…
  • n. (grammar) An intransitive verb or state-of-being verb.
  • v. To remove sex organs from an animal to prevent it from having offspring; to castrate or spay, particularly…
  • v. To rid of sexuality.

redact

  • v. To censor, to black out or remove parts of a document while releasing the remainder.
  • v. (law) To black out legally protected sections of text in a document provided to opposing counsel, typically…
  • v. To reduce to form, as literary matter; to digest and put in shape (matter for publication); to edit.
  • v. (rare) To draw up or frame a decree, statement, etc.
  • v. (obsolete) To bring together in one unit; to combine or bring together into one.
  • v. (obsolete) To gather or organize works or ideas into a unified whole; to collect, order, or write in a…
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To insert or assimilate into a written system or scheme.
  • v. (obsolete, rare) To bring an area of study within the comprehension capacity of a person.
  • v. (obsolete) To reduce to a particular condition or state, especially one that is undesirable.
  • v. (obsolete) To reduce something physical to a certain form, especially by destruction.

spay

  • v. (transitive) To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant.
  • n. Rare spelling of spayard.

sterilise

  • v. (British and Commonwealth): To sterilize.

sterilize

  • v. To deprive of the ability to procreate.
  • v. To make unable to produce; to make unprofitable.
  • v. (biology) To kill, deactivate (denature), or destroy (break apart) all living, viable microorganisms and…

unsex

  • v. To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics.
  • v. To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate.

vary

  • v. (transitive) To change with time or a similar parameter.
  • v. (transitive) To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify.
  • v. (intransitive) Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter.
  • v. (of the members of a group, intransitive) To display differences.
  • v. (intransitive) To be or act different from the usual.
  • v. (transitive) To make of different kinds; to make different from one another; to diversity; to variegate.
  • v. (transitive, music) To embellish; to change fancifully; to present under new aspects, as of form, key,…
  • v. (obsolete) To disagree; to be at variance or in dissension.
  • n. (obsolete) alteration; change.

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