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altered   (TTS Sound)

The verb alter has 5 senses

• change, alter, modify -- (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue")


• change, alter, vary -- (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season")


• alter -- (make an alteration to; "This dress needs to be altered")


• interpolate, alter, falsify -- (insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby)


• alter, neuter, spay, castrate -- (remove the ovaries of; "Is your cat spayed?")

The adj altered has 3 senses

• altered -- (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)


• altered, neutered -- (having testicles or ovaries removed)


• adapted, altered -- (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")