It is not clear whether Lander intended to alter Emmet's style from the beginning.
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Alter
//ˈɒl.tə//
Synonyms for "alter" (199 found)
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8 entriesSynonyms
2 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesat location
1 entriesderived
16 entriesderived from
1 entriesentails
1 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesmanner of
2 entriesrelated to
14 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 31 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- غَيَّرَ verb (to change the form or structure of)
Asturian
2 entries- alterar verb (to change the form or structure of)
- alteriar verb (to change the form or structure of)
Belarusian
2 entries- змяня́ць verb (to change the form or structure of)
- змяні́ць verb (to change the form or structure of)
Bulgarian
4 entries- изме́ням verb (to change the form or structure of)
- изменя́ verb (to change the form or structure of)
- проме́ням verb (to change the form or structure of)
- променя́ verb (to change the form or structure of)
Catalan
1 entries- alterar verb (to change the form or structure of)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 改變 /改变 verb (to change the form or structure of)
- 轉變 /转变 verb (to change the form or structure of)
Czech
4 entries- měnit verb (to change the form or structure of)
- proměnit verb (to change the form or structure of)
- proměňovat verb (to change the form or structure of)
- změnit verb (to change the form or structure of)
Esperanto
4 entries- aliformi verb (to change the form or structure of)
- aliformigi verb (to change the form or structure of)
- aliigi verb (to change the form or structure of)
- ŝanĝi verb (to change the form or structure of)
Finnish
1 entries- muuttaa verb (to change the form or structure of)
French
3 entries- altérer verb (to change the form or structure of)
- changer verb (to change the form or structure of)
- modifier verb (to change the form or structure of)
Galician
1 entries- alterar verb (to change the form or structure of)
German
2 entries- abändern verb (to change the form or structure of)
- ändern verb (to change the form or structure of)
Hebrew
2 entries- שִׁנָּה verb (to change the form or structure of)
- שינה verb (to change the form or structure of)
Hungarian
1 entries- módosít verb (to change the form or structure of)
Ido
1 entries- alterar verb (to change the form or structure of)
Japanese
3 entries- 変える verb (to change the form or structure of)
- 変更する verb (to change the form or structure of)
- 直す verb (to change the form or structure of)
Korean
4 entries- 개조하다 verb (to change the form or structure of)
- 거세하다 verb (to change the form or structure of)
- 고치다 verb (to change the form or structure of)
- 달라지다 verb (to change the form or structure of)
Macedonian
2 entries- промени verb (to change the form or structure of)
- променува verb (to change the form or structure of)
Māori
3 entries- panoni verb (to change the form or structure of)
- whakarerekē verb (to change the form or structure of)
- whakaumu verb (to change the form or structure of)
Odia
1 entries- ବଦଳାଇବା verb (to change the form or structure of)
Polish
4 entries- przerabiać verb (to change the form or structure of)
- przerobić verb (to change the form or structure of)
- zmieniać verb (to change the form or structure of)
- zmienić verb (to change the form or structure of)
Portuguese
3 entries- alterar verb (to change the form or structure of)
- modificar verb (to change the form or structure of)
- mudar verb (to change the form or structure of)
Russian
4 entries- измени́ть verb (to change the form or structure of)
- изменя́ть verb (to change the form or structure of)
- меня́ть verb (to change the form or structure of)
- переде́лать verb (to change the form or structure of)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mùth verb (to change the form or structure of)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- izmeniti verb (to change the form or structure of)
- izmijéniti verb (to change the form or structure of)
- promenjívati verb (to change the form or structure of)
- promijéniti verb (to change the form or structure of)
Slovak
2 entries- meniť verb (to change the form or structure of)
- zmeniť verb (to change the form or structure of)
Slovene
1 entries- spremeniti verb (to change the form or structure of)
Spanish
3 entries- alterar verb (to change the form or structure of)
- cambiar verb (to change the form or structure of)
- modificar verb (to change the form or structure of)
Swedish
3 entries- förändra verb (to change the form or structure of)
- modifiera verb (to change the form or structure of)
- ändra verb (to change the form or structure of)
Tibetan
3 entries- བཟོ་བཅོས verb (to change the form or structure of)
- བཟོ་བཅོས་གཏོང verb (to change the form or structure of)
- བརྗེ་སྒྱུར་གཏོང verb (to change the form or structure of)
Ukrainian
3 entries- змі́нювати verb (to change the form or structure of)
- зміни́ти verb (to change the form or structure of)
- міня́ти verb (to change the form or structure of)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
The slave was anxious to alter his destiny.
Source: tatoeba (44782)
As the artist grows older his paintings may alter.
Source: tatoeba (48445)
After weighing all these considerations, the promoters will present their scheme in the form of a private bill; however, they might find themselves forced to alter the route in order to meet criticisms in Parliament.
Source: tatoeba (62351)
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