ALTERED

altered

(adjective) changed in form or character without becoming something else; “the altered policy promised success”; “following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization”; “he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing”- Charles Dickens

adapted, altered

(adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; “seeds precisely adapted to the area”; “instructions altered to suit the children’s different ages”

altered, neutered

(adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Verb

altered

simple past tense and past participle of alter

Noun

altered (plural altereds)

A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine.

Adjective

altered (not comparable)

Having been changed from an original form.

(of an animal, usually a pet) Neutered; having had testicles or uterus and ovaries removed to prevent procreation.

Anagrams

• Aldrete, alerted, redealt, related, treadle

Source: Wiktionary

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ALTER

Al"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered; p. pr. & vb. n. Altering.] Etym: [F. altérer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.]

1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No power in Venice can alter a decree." Shak. It gilds all objects, but it alters none. Pope. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Ps. lxxxix. 34.

2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] Milton.

3. To geld. [Colloq.]

Syn.

– Change, Alter. Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity.

Al"ter, v. i.

Definition: To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure. "The law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not." Dan. vi. 8.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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