alter

v. change, modify; be changed, be modified

To alter generally means to change something but may also refer to:Alter (name), people named AlterAlter (automobile)Alter Channel, a Greek TV channel"Alter", a song by Raven from their 1994 album GlowArchbishop Alter High School, a Roman-Catholic high school in Kettering, Ohio.
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Verb
1. cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
(synonym) change, modify
(hyponym) awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse
(cause) change
(derivation) alteration, modification, adjustment
2. make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
(synonym) change, vary
(hyponym) alternate, jump
3. make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered"
(hypernym) change, modify
(entail) sew, tailor, tailor-make
(derivation) alteration, modification, adjustment
4. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
(synonym) interpolate, falsify
(hypernym) edit, redact
5. remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?"
(synonym) neuter, spay, castrate
(hypernym) sterilize, sterilise, desex, unsex, desexualize, desexualise, fix
(hyponym) defeminize, defeminise

n. age, length of time that a person or organism has been alive; length of time that an object has existed; period

adj. older, more aged, more elderly, former

adj. aged, elderly, old; being ## years old; ancient, very old, antique, archaic, from another period; earlier, past, prior, in existence for a long time; (Scottish) auld

adj. other, different