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alter

English

  1. 🔊 remove the ovaries of
    “Is your cat spayed?”
  2. 🔊 make an alteration to
    “This dress needs to be altered”
  3. 🔊 become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
    “her mood changes in accordance with the weather”
  4. 🔊 cause to change
    “The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city”
  5. 🔊 insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

Spanish

  1. 🔊 alterar to alter, to change
  2. 🔊 variar to alter, vary, change

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