altered
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tər verb (used with object)
1.
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.
2.
to castrate or spay.
verb (used without object)
3.
to change; become different or modified.
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World English Dictionary
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to make or become different in some respect; change |
| 2. | informal chiefly (US) (tr) castrate a euphemistic word for spay |
| [C14: from Old French alterer, from Medieval Latin alterāre to change, from Latin alter other] | |
| 'alterable | |
| —adj | |
| 'alterably | |
| —adv | |
| altera'bility | |
| —n | |
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Etymonline
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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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
ALT (ā'ěl-tē')
n.
Alanine aminotransferase; an enzyme in serum and body tissues that catalyzes the transfer of amino acid groups from l-alanine to 2-ketoglutarate or the reverse, thus allowing nitrogen to be excreted or incorporated into other compounds.
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Example sentences
Memories were made or altered, he proposed, when structures near the synapse changed.
We humans have changed that to a limited extent, but it does not seem to have altered the stronger link to solar activity.
Certain essential fatty acids may also be altered by heating.
But none of these screeds seem to have altered the political debate.
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