| 释义 |
Adjective: altered olturd- Changed in form or character without becoming something else
"the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing" - Having testicles or ovaries removed
- neutered - Changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
"instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"
- adapted
Verb: alter oltu(r)- Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
"The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"
- change, modify - Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
- change, vary - Make an alteration to
"This dress needs to be altered" - Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
- interpolate, falsify - Remove the ovaries of
- neuter, spay, castrate
See also: adjusted, alterable, alteration, castrated, changed, edited, emended, modified, paraphrastic, revised, unsexed Type of: desex, desexualise [Brit], desexualize, edit, fix, redact, sterilise [Brit], sterilize, unsex Antonym: unaltered Encyclopedia: Alter Alter,Detroit Altered |