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altered

[awl-ter]

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.

verb (used without object)

to change; become different or modified.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English < Old French alterer < Late Latin alterāre to change, worsen, derivative of Latin alter other

Related forms

al·ter·er, noun

half-al·tered, adjective

pre·al·ter, verb (used with object)

re·al·ter, verb

un·al·ter·ing, adjective

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well-al·tered, adjective

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Can be confused: altar, alter.

Synonyms
1. See adjust, change.

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Example Sentences

The industry maintains that foods produced from genetically altered crops are harmless.

It might be altered before it is formally put before the trustees.

After the second world war, the organisation's character altered.

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The industry maintains that foods produced from genetically altered crops are harmless.

It might be altered before it is formally put before the trustees.

After the second world war, the organisation's character altered.

The cats are not transgenic animals-their genes have not been altered to make them less of an allergy risk.

Neurologists say perceptions can be altered by rewiring the neural networks in the brain.

Its altered state, though, keeps it in the here and now.

Ellison altered the grade by cutting and filling in places to create horizontal terraces and extend gardening space.

But humans weren't the only creatures whose fortunes were forever altered.

When energy regimes converge with communications revolutions, human consciousness is altered.

Johnson's lending programme was altered almost straight away.

No part of the ancient script was altered or damaged during this process.

Altered trade routes could disrupt native ecosystems.

With this camera familiar objects and landscapes are altered in a way that even a photographer can't predict.

He also altered the flat ceilings by adding a gentle pitch to the roof over the original beams.

Here is a sampling of some of the more famous altered photographs from the last century.

Interested in how the neural circuitry adapts to various stimuli and is altered throughout the lifespan in humans.

So, this is a sign that the environment is filled with toxins and altered climates.

See how its diversions, dams, and drought have altered river flow and threaten to change the lives of millions of people.

The altered strain was rendered avirulent, because the immune system was able to eliminate the exposed pathogens.

The donated trophies will be altered so that the figures perform everyday tasks.

It will include an exclusive version of the legendary action game with altered graphics.

In fact, the nature of migration has altered in ways that encourage ambivalence.

The high mountains altered air circulation and weather patterns, contributing to the drier and cooler climate.

Bald eagles, which feed on fish, altered their food habits.

Shin has since altered them to depict ordinary people at work.

Every menu, button name, and function can be altered.

It altered the economics of shipping and with that the flow of world trade.

The researchers say these are areas where water flowing through the fractures has altered the appearance of rock.

Within a week, the scientists found, the altered fish could match their normal counterparts in speed and agility.

Also, some of the grains showed signs of having been chemically altered.

While there is no health hazard attached to chlorophenol, the taste of the wine can be altered.

These properties remain the same when others are altered.

Human activities have already altered much of this region.

Culprits that could have altered the climate and oceans in a deadly way include sustained volcanism and continental drift.

Songs are reshaped with altered lyrics and fresh solos.

The changes weren't huge, but each of them subtly altered the flow of conversation.

Sharp shifts in exchange rates in recent months have altered the relative cost of living in cities around the world.

Monsanto is one of the world's largest suppliers of genetically altered seeds.

The particle's position thus altered the nanotube's electrical resistance on a local scale.

Germany will not truly be on the move until the rules on hiring and firing are radically altered.

These trends have profoundly altered the selection process in lower ranks.

And for a certain group of genetically altered mice, it has.

My question is over what you consider altered and what is not.

Also altered were the hearing procedures for professors who were dismissed for cause or laid off.

Recently, however, scientists have discovered that damaged or altered stem.

But researchers see hope that using genetically altered immune cells to.

It altered the time path, rather than the level, of outlays.

Bees could be trained, through altered feeding habits, to swarm a vehicle packed with dynamite.

It's not unusual for writers to feel that being in an altered state of some kind helps them as.

Careers and fields are mutually altered by such endeavors.

Caloric intake and exercise levels have not altered enough to explain the.

So her designs were altered by what made them more fluid, more easy to move with the body, those kinds of things.

Signing a configuration profile ensures that the settings it enforces cannot be altered in any way.

Lots of community, but much of it involving altered states.

The position of these mirrors can be altered millions of times per second.

And during rebuilding or reconsolidation, as she termed it memories can be altered or even erased.

Many experiments use an altered virus called adenovirus to carry the gene into the body.

Campus officials say they have restored all of the altered grades.

When children raced in pairs, girls' speed hardly altered.

Much of this region has been significantly altered by cattle, sheep, and goat grazing and farming.

But few studies have definitively linked oxidative damage to altered cellular function.

If your clothes don't fit, get them altered or buy some new ones.

It has dramatically altered the course of human history, even contributing to the.

The range and extensiveness of feeling has also been significantly altered.

Many were altered or destroyed over the last three centuries by farming and construction projects.

The game changer was that he altered people's perceptions of who had a right to be someplace".

The ultimate cause of the altered levels of autoantibody in anorexics and bulimics is unresolved as yet.

Wild pigs and feral goats and cats have also altered the landscape.

Shechtman discovered what are called quasicrystals, a finding that fundamentally altered the understanding of solid matter.

The blurb links to a site containing altered images of female celebrities.

But disappointing economic numbers have altered the political terrain.

Cicada broods have altered their cycles in the past, though it's unclear exactly why.

Finally, the antibiotic target site within the bacteria can be altered.

Make sure you have copies of things that are returned to the student, so they cannot be altered.

The photos have not been manipulated or digitally altered in any way.

And the programs they tweaked, cut or increase funding for were altered without much comment.

Your subsequent posts altered that early presumption.

The rising number of car models, for instance, has altered the economics of locating car plants.

They should recognize that the sharks have altered the behavior of the bottlenose dolphins.

If you've had a brain injury, what happens is the metabolism of the brain has been significantly altered.

But it also altered the game in a way that might turn off experienced players.

Make sure that if the student has those, then you need to get a copy of them to make sure that nothing was altered.

Through the last century, changes in transportation costs altered the economics of industrial location.

They and others have altered this landscape for centuries without destroying.

People who want to escape reality by being altered all the time are ill-not criminals.

Mice with altered immune systems developed metabolic disorders and were prone to overeating.

Americans altered the way they live because of fear of crime.

P&G has radically altered the way it comes up with new ideas and products.

The altered version of the gene was more common in the heaviest smokers than it was in the rest of the population.

Corporate and fractional jets use small airports where check-in takes minutes and take-off times can be altered to suit.

The slave trade dramatically altered the economy and inter-ethnic power relationships.

But not all altered landscapes are equal for bees: modern agriculture has taken a severe toll on wild bee numbers.

One reason is that content is often altered to fit local tastes.

Next, an elephant egg would have to be fertilized with altered genes and implanted in the womb of a female elephant.

Gamow always got the physics right, even if some of the constants were altered.

The goats were altered with spider genes so that they could produce silk proteins in their milk.

Do hormone levels return or stay at their altered state.

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Word Origin & History

alter

late 14c., "to change (something)," from O.Fr. alterer, from M.L. alterare "to change," from L. alter "the other (of the two)," from PIE *al- "beyond" + comp. suffix -ter (cf. other). Intransitive sense "to become otherwise" first recorded 1580s.

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"It is the consequence of this institution that not a school- house, a public pew, a bridge, a pound, a mill-dam, hath been set up, or pulled down, or altered, or bought, or sold, without the whole population of this town having a voice in the affair. A general contentment is the result. And the people truly feel that they are lords of the soil. In every winding road, in every stone fence, in the smokes of the poor-house chimney, in the clock on the church, they read their own power, and consider, at leisure, the wisdom and error of their judgments."

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