(Homonym: altar).
1. To make an alteration to.
2. Said of animals: spay, neuter.
To make amendments to.
1. To cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; SYN. alter.
2. To make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; SYN. alter, vary.
3. To undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.
4. To exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; SYN. exchange, commute, convert.
5. To remove or replace the coverings of.
6. To change clothes; put on different clothes.
1. To convert alternating to direct current.
2. To reverse the direction of an electric current.
1. To cause to adopt a different faith.
2. To change from one system to another; SYN. change over.
3. To change in nature; esp. undergo a chemical change.
4. To change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief.
5. To change the nature of something.
6. To make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; SYN. win over, convince, turn.
1. To give to, and receive from, one another; SYN. change, interchange, trade.
2. To exchange prisoners, employees, etc.
1. To break through the shell of the egg
2. To break open (the shell of an egg) in hatching
3. To beat by a narrow margin
1. To send in the opposite direction
2. To overrule or overturn a decision
1. To change in outward structure or looks; SYN. transmute.
2. To change or alter in form, appearance, or nature; SYN. transmute.
3. To subject to a mathematical transformation.
1. To alter in nature; of chemical elements in alchemy.
2. Change into another substance or species.
(Homonym: very).
1. To be subject to change.
2. To make something more diverse and varied; SYN. variegate, motley.