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alter - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: alter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: change
Synonyms: adapt, adjust, amend, change, convert, cook, develop, diversify, doctor, metamorphose, modify, mutate, reconstruct, reform, remodel, renovate, revamp, revise, shift, transform, turn, vary, correct mid-course, dial back, fine tune, make different, phony up, recalibrate, recast, refashion, reshape, transmute
Antonyms: continue, fix, keep, maintain, preserve, remain, retain, sustain, let stand
Main Entry: alter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: sterilize animal
Synonyms: castrate, change, emasculate, fix, geld, mutilate, neuter, caponize, desexualize, spay, unsex
Main Entry: adapt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: adjust to a different situation or condition
Synonyms: acclimate, accommodate, accustom, alter, change, comply, conform, familiarize, fashion, fit, get used to, habituate, harmonize, make, match, modify, prepare, qualify, readjust, reconcile, remodel, revise, shape, square, suit, tailor, come around, get act together, grow used to, play the game, roll with punches, shape up
Antonyms: disarrange, dislocate, disorder, disturb, unfit
Main Entry: alternate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: take turns, change back and forth
Synonyms: alter, blow hot and cold*, change, exchange, fluctuate, follow, interchange, intersperse, oscillate, relieve, rotate, seesaw, shift, shilly-shally*, substitute, sway, vacillate, vary, waver, act reciprocally, come and go, fill in for, follow in turn, yo-yo
Notes: alternate means 'one after the other' or 'each succeeding the other in turn, especially continuously' and alternative means 'one instead of the other' or 'allowing or necessitating a choice between two or more things'
Antonyms: continue
Main Entry: amend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: improve, correct
Synonyms: alter, ameliorate, better, change, elevate, enhance, fix, help, lift, make up for, mend, modify, pay one's dues, raise, rectify, reform, remedy, repair, revise, right, square*
Antonyms: blemish, corrupt, debase, depress, harm, impair, injure, mar, reduce, subtract, worsen
Main Entry: brainwash
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: force to believe or do things
Synonyms: alter, catechize, condition, convert, convince, educate, indoctrinate, influence, instill, persuade, proselytize, teach
Main Entry: castrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: remove sexual organs
Synonyms: alter, change, cut, emasculate, fix, geld, mutilate, neuter, sterilize, asexualize, caponize, deprive of virility, desexualize, eunuchize, spay, unsex
Main Entry: dilute
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make thinner; weaken
Synonyms: adulterate, alter, attenuate, cook, cut, decrease, diffuse, diminish, doctor*, irrigate, lace, lessen, liquefy, mitigate, mix, moderate, modify, needle*, plant, qualify, reduce, shave*, spike, temper, water, water down, deliquesce, doctor up, phony up
Antonyms: concentrate, strengthen, thicken
Main Entry: disguise
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mask; misrepresent
Synonyms: affect, age, alter, antique, assume, beard, belie, camouflage, change, cloak, color, conceal, counterfeit, cover, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, dress up, fake, falsify, feign, front, fudge*, garble, hide, make up, masquerade, muffle, obfuscate, obscure, pretend, put on an act*, redo, screen, secrete, sham, shroud, simulate, touch up, varnish, veil, whitewash*, cover up, doctor up, gloss over, make like, put on a false front, put on a front, put up a front, wear cheaters
Antonyms: expose, open, represent, reveal, uncover, unmask
Main Entry: distort
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: deform; falsify
Synonyms: alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge*, garble, knot, lie, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, twist, warp, whitewash*, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, make out like, misshape, phony up, put one on, trump up
Antonyms: beautify, straight, shape nicely
Main Entry: diversify
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: spread out; branch out
Synonyms: alter, assort, change, expand, mix, modify, transform, vary, variegate
Antonyms: conform, stay same, unvary
Main Entry: edit
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: rewrite, refine
Synonyms: adapt, alter, amplify, analyze, annotate, arrange, assemble, assign, butcher, censor, check, choose, compile, compose, condense, correct, cut, delete, discard, doctor, draft, emend, excise, feature, fine-tune, finish, go over, make up, massage*, polish, prepare, prescribe, proofread, publish, put together, rearrange, rectify, regulate, rehash, rephrase, report, revise, scrub*, select, set up, strike out, style, tighten, trim, blue-pencil*, boil down*, fly speck, recalibrate, redact, write over
Main Entry: emasculate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: weaken, deprive of force
Synonyms: alter, debilitate, devitalize, enervate, fix*, impoverish, vitiate
Antonyms: aid, assist, help
Main Entry: emend
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: correct
Synonyms: alter, amend, better, edit, improve, polish, rectify, retouch, revise, right, touch up, emendate, redact
Antonyms: worsen, make mistake
Main Entry: fluctuate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: vacillate, change
Synonyms: alter, alternate, blow hot and cold*, flutter, hem and haw*, hesitate, oscillate, seesaw*, shift, swing, undulate, vary, veer, vibrate, wave, waver, be undecided, ebb and flow, go up and down, rise and fall, yo-yo
Antonyms: hold, persist, remain, stay
Main Entry: geld
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: castrate
Synonyms: alter*, emasculate, fix*, neuter, sterilize, eunuchize, spay, unman
Main Entry: influence
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: lead to believe, do
Synonyms: affect, alter, arouse, bias, brainwash*, bribe, bring to bear, carry weight, change, channel, compel, control, count, determine, direct, dispose, form, get at*, guide, impel, impress, incite, incline, induce, instigate, manipulate, modify, mold, move, persuade, predispose, prejudice, prevail, prompt, regulate, rouse, rule, seduce, sell, shape, snow*, sway, train, turn, urge, act upon, argue into, be recognized, have a part in, impact on, pull strings, talk into, work upon
Main Entry: invert
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: reverse; turn upside down
Synonyms: alter, capsize, change, convert, double back, flip, flip-flop*, introvert, inverse, modify, overturn, renege, revert, tip, transpose, turn, turn down, turn over, upset, upturn, backtrack, evert, transplace, turn inside out, turn the tables, upend
Main Entry: juggle
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mislead, falsify; handle several things at once
Synonyms: alter, beguile, betray, bluff, change, conjure, delude, disguise, doctor*, double-cross, fix, humbug*, maneuver, manipulate, misrepresent, modify, shuffle, take in, trim, illude, perform magic, prestidigitate, tamper with
Antonyms: be honest
Main Entry: knead
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: mix by pressing
Synonyms: aerate, alter, blend, form, manipulate, massage, mold, ply, press, push, rub, shape, squeeze, stroke, twist, work
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