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Alter
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- 1 One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity.
"While the second goal would be best met if each alter were coconscious, the defendant should be satisfied if at least one competent alter is present to hear what transpires."
- 2 Misspelling of altar. alt-of, misspelling
"As an alter boy he remembered that walking between the alter and the gates was prohibited for everyone except the priest."
- 1 To change the form or structure of. ambitransitive
"Near-synonym: tweak"
- 2 remove the ovaries of wordnet
- 3 To become different. intransitive
"[…] Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul, / Victorious song, death’s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song, […]"
- 4 become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence wordnet
- 5 To tailor clothes to make them fit. transitive
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- 6 cause to change; make different; cause a transformation wordnet
- 7 To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal). transitive
- 8 insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby wordnet
- 9 To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness. transitive
"We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]"
- 10 make an alteration to wordnet
Etymology
From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.
Probably from alter ego.
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