Crossword clues for altering
altering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.]
--Milton.-
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
n. alteration vb. (present participle of alter English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "altering".
At the moment--and for the past half hour--they were listening to a lecture On what was known about how various mind-altering substances actually worked.
He said something about their working on some revolutionary drug that could really put an end to the crime problem, and how legalizing mind-altering drugs would make it easier to get approval for that, too.
If the public could be made to believe that mind-altering drugs were acceptable, then it was probably only a small step to getting them to accept an experimental drug that might well permanently alter the brain.
The complicated scheme, which has come to be known as "Paxgate" , after the name given by Glasser Biotech to the brain-altering drug they had developed, has resulted in numerous criminal convictions.
How much money would there be in altering the cell deterioration that causes disease?
It can only pay by altering its mode of life, and how long is it likely to be before a new departure in its mode of life comes out in its own person and in those of its family?
Darwin declares “habit omnipotent and its effects hereditary” - a sentence, by the way, than which none can be either more unfalteringly Lamarckian or less tainted with the vices of Mr.
He was saving lives, for God's sake, altering destinies, having a profound impact not only on those he saved from death but on the lives of the friends and families who would have been left shattered and bereaved.
The Friend was in its testy, I'll-show-you mode, and it was providing details which it expected would lend credibility to its extravagant claim to be altering human destiny.
To varying degrees most of the gods were capable of altering matter, but it required intense concentration and usually could be performed only piecemeal, or on small objects.
She had spent almost two hours perfecting the herb, altering it bit by bit until it exactly suited her requirements.
Many writers have suggested that there are a variety of better alternatives to the use of mood-altering drugs, e.
No, the beam was probably anchored to some huge, distant star, was probably dragging that star sunward, and dragging the entire Queendom of Sol out toward it, altering the paths and positions of the two stars in their slow galactic orbits.