alter
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alter /ˈɔːltə, ˈɒl-/
▶verb
- 1 change in character, appearance, or composition.
- 2 N. Amer. & Austral. castrate or spay (a domestic animal).
– derivatives
alterable adjective,
alteration noun,
alterative adjective.
alterable adjective,
alteration noun,
alterative adjective.
– origin ME: from OFr. alterer, from late L. alterare, from L. alter ‘other’.
'alter' also found in these Oxford entries:
adjust
- airbrush
- altar
- alter ego
- alterity
- alternative
- change
- choke
- compress
- cook
- denature
- difference
- disguise
- disrupt
- duff
- editor
- falsify
- fit
- gear
- give
- goalpost
- gyroscope
- innovate
- interpolate
- intervene
- invert
- make
- manipulate
- metaphrase
- modulate
- naturalize
- obvert
- perturb
- pervert
- photoshop
- piston
- reposition
- resize
- retain
- revise
- rework
- size
