altering

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 3.90 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb present participle and gerund of alter

   This skirt needs altering.

2. noun alteration

Similar words

fixing neutering alteration changing modified change transforming adjust adjusting modify

Often followed by

the its their his a or it and of drugs

Word family

alter alterable alteration alterations altered alternate alternating alters