ALTER, ALTERATION, ALTERED
ADJECTIVES
► ALTERATE altered, changed → 1450 obs.
► COOKED altered; falsified; doctored → 1860 Amer. sl.
► MUTABLE subject to alteration or change → 1425
► NOVATURIENT desiring alterations or changes → 1679 obs.
► UNCO altered so as to be scarcely recognizable; unknown, strange; foreign → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
NOUNS
► ALTERITY an alteration → 1500 obs.
► IMMUTATION alteration, change, transformation → 1540 obs.
VERBS
► ALTERATE to alter, to change → 1475 obs.
► AWEND to alter, to change; to make something different in some particular → 1000 obs.
► BACK to alter, to change → 1890 Eng. dial.
► FAKE UP to alter, to tamper with, to arrange in any manner for advantage or profit → 1812 sl.
► FIDDLE to fraudulently alter or misrepresent → 1970 sl.
► FUTZ to alter wrongfully; to damage → 1930 US sl.
► IMMUTE to alter, to change; to produce a change in; to transform → 1613 obs.
► ODDS to alter, to remedy, to redress; to undo → 1868 Eng. dial.
► PERMUTATE to change or alter → 1598 obs.
► SALT THE BOOKS to improve the state of a firm’s accounts by judicious, if illicit, alterations to the figures → L19 sl.
► TURKEN to alter the form or appearance of; to change, to modify → 1575 obs.
► TURKESS to transform or alter for the worse; to twist, to distort, to pervert → 1521 obs.
► TWERK to alter; to improve or perfect something by making a fine adjustment to it → 1999 colloq., orig. & chiefly US
► VARIATE to alter; to cause to change → 1566 obs.
► WRIXLE to alter, to change; to confound → 1400 obs.
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