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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
altered
    adj 1: 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"- Charles Dickens [ant:
           unaltered, unchanged]
    2: having testicles or ovaries removed [syn: altered,
       neutered]
    3: changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular
       purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions
       altered to suit the children's different ages" [syn:
       adapted, altered]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Alter \Al"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Altering.] [F. alt['e]rer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter
   other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.]
   1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either
      partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the
      king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No
      power in Venice can alter a decree." --Shak.
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            It gilds all objects, but it alters none. --Pope.
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            My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing
            that is gone out of my lips.          --Ps. lxxxix.
                                                  34.
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   2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] --Milton.
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   3. To geld. [Colloq.]
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   Syn: Change, Alter.

   Usage: Change is generic and the stronger term. It may
          express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one
          thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a
          partial change, or a change in form or details without
          destroying identity.
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