Definition of ALTERED

altered

Meanings

Plural: altereds

Verb

  • cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
    • "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"
  • become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
  • make an alteration to
    • "This dress needs to be altered"
  • insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
  • remove the ovaries of
  • simple past and past participle of alter

Adjective

  • changed in form or character without becoming something else; ; ; - Charles Dickens
    • "the altered policy promised success"
    • "following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization"
    • "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"

Adjective Satellite

  • having testicles or ovaries removed
  • changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
    • "instructions altered to suit the children's different ages"

Noun

  • A kind of car in drag racing, usually with a partial body situated behind the exposed engine.

Adj

  • Having been changed from an original form.
  • Neutered; having had testicles or uterus and ovaries removed to prevent procreation.

Antonyms

unaltered

Scrabble Score: 8

altered is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
altered is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
altered is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 9

altered is a valid Words With Friends word