alter
(verb)
verb
1. cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city
Similar word(s): change, modify
Definition categories: change
2. become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
Definition categories: change
3. make an alteration to
- This dress needs to be altered
Definition categories: creation, alter, change, modify
4. insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
Similar word(s): falsify, interpolate
Definition categories: change, edit, redact
5. remove the ovaries of
Similar word(s): castrate, neuter, spay
Definition categories: body, desex, desexualise, desexualize, fix, sterilise, sterilize, unsex