Alters

He alters the altar while chipping away the stone.

Every word alters the future; whether for good or bad depends on the word spoken.

Climate change has a broad impact on health, both through the direct effect that climate change has on extreme weather—heat waves to heavy rainfall events and associated flooding, coastal storms, hurricanes—but also indirectly, in the way that it alters disease ecology, or ecosystems that are important in maintaining a healthy environment.

A study of rats suggests attentive and nurturing mothering permanently alters genetic activity in the brain, leaving young rats better able to resist the temptation of drugs later in life.

Any person who excavates, removes, damages, alters, or defaces archeological resources on federal land is subject to fine and/or arrest.