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alter

Pronunciation: /ˈɒl.tə/

The English word “alter” has 6 meanings listed here.

verb

  1. To change the form or structure of.
  2. To become different.
  3. To tailor clothes to make them fit.
  4. To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
  5. To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.

noun

  1. One of the personalities, identities, or selves in a person with dissociative identity disorder or another form of multiplicity.

Etymology

From Old French alterer (French altérer), from Medieval Latin alterāre (“to make other”), from Latin alter (“the other”), from al- (seen in alius (“other”), alienus (“of another”), etc.; see alias, alien, etc.) + compar. suffix -ter.

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