1. (

• change ,
• alter ,
• modify ,

) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue" ;

2. (

• change ,
• alter ,
• vary ,

) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" ;

3. (

• alter

) make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered" ;

4. (

• interpolate ,
• alter ,
• falsify ,

) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby ;

5. (

• alter ,
• neuter ,
• spay ,
• castrate ,

) remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?" ;

1. (

• altered

) 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 ;

2. (

• altered ,
• neutered

) having testicles or ovaries removed ;

3. (

• adapted ,
• altered

) 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" ;