1. Changed in form or character without becoming something else
   "he looked … with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"
    
2. Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
   "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages";
   - adapted
    
3. Having testicles or ovaries removed
   "The altered cat became calmer after the procedure";
   - neutered

1. Make different; cause a transformation
   "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city";
   - change, modify
    
2. Become different in some particular way
   "her mood alters in accordance with the weather";
   - change, vary
    
3. Make an alteration to
   "This dress needs to be altered"
    
4. Remove the ovaries of
   "Is your cat altered?";
   - neuter, spay, castrate

See also: adjusted, castrated, changed, edited, emended, modified, paraphrastic, revised, unsexed

Type of: act, cause, desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, fix, get, have, induce, make, move, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, stimulate, unsex

Antonym: unaltered

Encyclopedia: Altered