Alter
To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
To agitate; to affect mentally.
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To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by exposure.
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Alter Quotations
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mahatma Gandhi
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams
When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.
Charlie Sheen
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
Woodrow Wilson
Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
T. S. Eliot
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca
Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust
Alter Translations
alter in Afrikaans is verander
alter in Danish is forandre
alter in Dutch is anders maken, veranderen
alter in Italian is variare, alterare
alter in Latin is novo
alter in Portuguese is altere
alter in Spanish is combiar, modificar, alterar, modificar
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