altered
Meaning of altered
verb, past tense
- change in character or composition, typically in a comparatively small but significant way.
Eliot was persuaded to alter the passage
our outward appearance alters as we get older
late Middle English: from Old French alterer, from late Latin alterare, from Latin alter ‘other’.
Information about altered
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of altered
al-tered
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- altered is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
altered synonyms
Meaning neutered:
Meaning adapted:
Meaning alter in terms of:
Meaning alter or move (something) slightly in order to achieve the desired fit, appearance, or result:
Meaning make (something) suitable for a new use or purpose; modify:
Meaning make minor changes to (a text, piece of legislation, etc.) in order to make it fairer or more accurate, or to reflect changing circumstances:
Meaning make or become better:
Meaning make partial or minor changes to (something):
Meaning adapt (a building) to make it suitable for a new purpose:
Meaning examine and make corrections or alterations to (written or printed matter):
Meaning give (a metal object) a different form by melting it down and reshaping it:
Meaning make changes in (something, especially an institution or practice) in order to improve it:
Meaning shape or form (something) differently or again:
Meaning fashion (something) again or differently:
Meaning design (something) again or in a different way:
Meaning rearrange or remake in a new shape or layout:
Meaning give new and improved form, structure, or appearance to:
Meaning make changes to the original version of (something):
Meaning make (something) again or differently:
Meaning change the structure or form of (something, especially a building):
Meaning change the appearance, structure, or character of:
Meaning do (something) again or differently:
Meaning build or form (something) again after it has been damaged or destroyed:
Meaning change the way in which (something) is organized:
Meaning request (something) to be made, supplied, or served again:
Meaning remove impurities or unwanted elements from (a substance), typically as part of an industrial process:
Meaning change the focus or direction of:
Meaning another term for reorient:
Meaning differ in size, amount, degree, or nature from something else of the same general class:
Meaning make a marked change in the form, nature, or appearance of:
Meaning transform into something more beautiful or elevated:
Meaning change in form, nature, or substance:
Meaning develop gradually:
Meaning modify (something) to suit a particular individual or task:
Meaning make or adapt for a particular purpose or person:
Meaning improve (a mechanism or system) by making fine adjustments to it:
Meaning submit to a process of alteration, rearrangement, or permutation:
Meaning move in a circular direction wholly or partly round an axis or point:
Meaning change or cause to change completely in form or nature:
altered antonyms
Meaning maintain (something) in its original or existing state:
Anagrams of altered
alerted, delater, latrede, redealt, related, treadle
Words that rhyme with altered
ered, quaered, ambered, barbered, beblubbered, beslobbered, beslubbered, blabbered, blubbered, calibered, cambered, chambered, clabbered, clambered, clobbered, cumbered, discumbered, disencumbered, dismembered, disremembered, encumbered, fibered, foreremembered, gibbered, incumbered, jabbered, jibbered, limbered, lumbered, membered, misnumbered, misremembered, multichambered, multifibered, nontimbered, numbered, outnumbered, overtimbered, partimembered, prenumbered, remembered, renumbered, rubbered, sabered, scumbered, slabbered, slobbered, slubbered, slumbered, sobered
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