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We found 43 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word alter:
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General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. alter: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. alter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. alter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. alter: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. alter: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. alter: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Alter, alter: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. alter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. alter, alter-: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. alter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. alter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. alter: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. alter, alter: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. alter: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. alter: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. alter: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  17. Alter (album), Alter (disambiguation), Alter (name), Alter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  18. Alter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. alter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. alter: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. Alter (nt), alter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. alter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. alter: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  24. alter: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. alter: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. alter: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. Alter, alter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. alter: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alter-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alter: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ALTER: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
  2. Alter (SQL), alter: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alter: Medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. Alter: Brain Injury [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Alter: baby names list [home, info]
  2. alter: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
  3. ALTER: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  4. alter: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alter: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alter: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alter: Cat Terms [home, info]

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Quick definitions from WordNet (alter)

verb:  remove the ovaries of
verb:  make an alteration to ("This dress needs to be altered")
verb:  make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
verb:  cause to change; make different; cause a transformation ("The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city")
verb:  insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #9169)

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Phrases that include alter:   alter ego, alter boy, alter der ruine, alter eco, alter emo, more...

Words similar to alter:   change, alterability, alterable, alterably, altered, alterer, altering, falsify, interpolate, neuter, spay, vary, amend, edit, modify, rearrange, reconstruct, redo, transform, more...


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