Definition of Alter

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Definition of Alter

Alter

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

To agitate; to affect mentally.

To geld.

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

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Mohandas Gandhi

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
George Washington

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

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

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

Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
Soren Kierkegaard

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
Marcel Proust

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
James Allen

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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