alter

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 14.16 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To change the form or structure of.
2. verb To become different.
3. verb To tailor clothes to make them fit.
4. verb To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
5. verb To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
6. noun One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity.
7. noun Misspelling of altar.

Similar words

change vary interpolate falsify neuter spay alteration changing modified edited

Often followed by

the their ego his or its it a this

Word family

alterabilities alterability alterable alterably alteration alterations altered alterer alterers altering