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Altered

Alter \Al"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered; p. pr. & vb. n. Altering.] [F. alt['e]rer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.]

  1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. ``To alter the king's course.'' ``To alter the condition of a man.'' ``No power in Venice can alter a decree.''
    --Shak.

    It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
    --Pope.

    My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
    --Ps. lxxxix. 34.

  2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.]
    --Milton.

  3. To geld. [Colloq.]

    Syn: Change, Alter.

    Usage: Change is generic and the stronger term. It may express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a partial change, or a change in form or details without destroying identity.

Wiktionary
altered

n. A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine. vb. (en-past of: alter)

WordNet
altered
  1. adj. changed in form or character without becoming something else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"; "he looked...with couded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens [ant: unaltered]

  2. having testicles or ovaries removed [syn: neutered]

  3. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages" [syn: adapted]

Wikipedia
Altered (film)

Altered is a 2006 science fiction horror film directed by Eduardo Sánchez and written by Jamie Nash. It was Sánchez's first solo effort as director following his co-directing of The Blair Witch Project in 1999.

The plot is an inversion of the standard alien abduction formula, as four men abduct a lone alien, planning to wreak revenge on the invading species. In its early stages, the film was entitled Probed, and was intended as a comic homage to work of Sam Raimi and Troma Entertainment.

Altered

Altered may refer to:

  • An Altered (drag racing), a type of drag racing car
  • Altered (film), a 2006 film

Usage examples of "altered".

This is long and curious, and was greatly altered and abreviated in early 19th Century Editions.

And they were powerful crystals, for the kha in them had been altered to an Iz-window, an acausal vantage which .

Union, or Confederation, under altered conditions, by the majority which should accede to them, with a recognition of the right of the recusant minority to withdraw, secede, or stand aloof.

He held a number of bills, many of which were suspected by him to be forged--that is to say, that the figures had been altered after the signature of the acceptor had been written.

His plans would have to be drastically altered if Achar remained in the grip of ice.

In this instance, we altered the game plan from institutional advertising to promotional.

Lababiti had pulled the Jaguar in front and climbed out with Amad, Derek Goodlin, who was operating the house this evening, had been altered to his arrival.

And just now the bumping of the Tube train shaped his emotion into something that began with Success that poisons many a baser mind With thoughts of self, may lift-- but stopped there because, when he changed into another train, the jerkier movement altered the rhythm into something more lyrical, and he got somewhat confused between the two and ended by losing both.

From anywhere off Beachy Head, the nearest harbour was Pevensey, not Bulverhythe, and to catch the tide they altered course towards it.

The workmen placed the flowers and wreaths upon the mound and about it, and Bibbs altered the position of one or two of these, then stood looking thoughtfully at the grotesque brilliancy of that festalseeming hillock beneath the darkening November sky.

Mountjoy was murdered, and the fact that Bing chooses to be pigheaded has not altered my opinion one jot.

When they shall have ceased, it will, we think, be seen, whatever may have been the fortunes of other nations, that it is not the United States that will have come out of them with its precious Constitution altered or its honestly obtained dominion in any degree abridged.

Now, even though he had not altered his dislike for Dai Fargo thinking him not good enough for his only daughter he was almost pushing her out of the house.

As you vary the physical distance between your describer and the subjects being described, you may find that your personal connection with your subjects is altered.

By so doing, he altered the deterministic nature of the process, since human consciousness now had awareness of this controlling element of its own behavior and thought.