Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Changed; different. Specifically— In geology, metamorphosed: applied to a rock of which the constituent minerals have been changed by chemical action subsequently to its formation or deposition. Rocks are commonly rendered harder and more crystalline by such alteration. When softening of crystalline rocks takes place, it is usually accompanied by hydratation, or the taking up of water.
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of alter.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
- adj. changed in form or character without becoming something else
- adj. having testicles or ovaries removed
Examples
“His expression altered subtly, his gaze becoming both lambent and predatory.”
“However, when Basilisco looked at those with what he calls "altered somatization," he found that "patients with altered somatization are four times more likely to report lactose intolerance.”
USA Today: Lactose intolerance may sometimes be in the head, not the gut
“Lord Chancellor, and increased in acerbity as he described what he called the altered mind of his honourable and learned friend the”
“Then he said some very heavy things against the Lord Chancellor, and increased in acerbity as he described what he called the altered mind of his honourable and learned friend the Attorney-General.”
“In response, Martika's greatest hits album was repackaged with its title altered to "Toy Soldiers: The Best of Martika.”
“It seems that "altered" is all the rage, and has been for several years.”
“Prize-winning American artist Mimi Shapiro, who specializes in altered books, and acclaimed British designer Paul Johnson, who will discuss the book as architecture, are among the speakers.”
The Washington Post: Pyramid Atlantic set to open the Book Arts Fair
“What we lack in altered skeletons we make up for in bunions”
“Trick-or-treating came to us, in altered form, from that hallowed country across the pond.”
“NOTE: This DD214 appears to have been altered from the original by inserting the remarks highlighted in yellow.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘altered’.
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EN - fine scholarly language
exhort, accretion, twenty-nine, atrophy, additive, brilliantly, interreligious, empiricism, pathologic, limitless, half-century, vigilant and 488 more...
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Noesis
Mind or Mind Altering
example: psychotomimetic
( _mark, personal list, randomness )noetic, entheogen, psychonautics, infinite, bewilderment, mystification, stupefication, enhanced, altered, perception, simulation, network and 204 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Affliction
Ciprofloxacin changed my world 5 months ago. The pharmacy failed to include the FDA Black Box Warning on my prescription. And the resultant tendonitis has sorely afflicted 6 tendons (so far) and ...
floxed, floxic, deflox, floxicity, floxicology, floxicant, tendonitis, ciprotendonitis, tribulation, limp, gimp, imprisoned and 15 more...
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