Verb: alter ol-tu(r) [N. Amer], ol-tu(r) or ól-tu(r) [Brit]
- Make different; cause a transformation
"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city";
- change, modify
- Become different in some particular way
"her mood alters in accordance with the weather";
- change, vary
- Make an alteration to
"This dress needs to be altered"
- Remove the ovaries of
"Is your cat altered?";
- neuter, spay, castrate
Sounds like: altar
Derived forms: altering, altered, alters
Type of: act, cause, desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, get, have, induce, make, move, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, stimulate, unsex
Encyclopedia: Alter, Peter