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Definition of Alter |
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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. Related Definitions: Affect, Agitate, Almost, Alter, As, Become, By, Change, Daily, Different, Either, Exposure, Geld, In, Make, Mentally, Modify, Or, Otherwise, Partially, Respect, Some, The, To, Vary, Weather, Wholly |
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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 |
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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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