ALTER meaning: 1. to change something, usually slightly, or to cause the characteristics of something to change…. Learn more.

change, alter, vary, modify mean to make or become different. change implies making either an essential difference often amounting to a loss of original identity or a substitution of one thing …

verb (used with object) to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify. to alter a coat; to alter a will; to alter course. to castrate or spay.

If something alters or if you alter it, it changes. Little had altered in the village. [VERB] They have never altered their programmes by a single day. [VERB noun]

Definition of alter verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

After eating too many gingerbread cookies, she no longer fit into her uniform, so she had a seamstress alter it. It looked pretty much the same. The verb alter can also mean to neuter or …

Oct 16, 2025 · From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), …

(to cause to) be different or modified in some way, as size, style, course, or the like: [~ + object] to alter a coat. [no object] Her schedule has altered drastically.

Some common synonyms of alter are change, modify, and vary. While all these words mean "to make or become different," alter implies a difference in some particular respect without …

ALTER meaning: to change, or to make someone or something change: . Learn more.