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UK
/ˈɒltəd/
]
[ US /ˈɔɫtɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈɔɫtɝd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose
seeds precisely adapted to the area
instructions altered to suit the children's different ages -
changed in form or character without becoming something else
following an altered course we soon found ourselves back in civilization
the altered policy promised success
he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing - having testicles or ovaries removed
How To Use altered In A Sentence
- Modern scientific capability has profoundly altered the course of human life. Times, Sunday Times
- I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
- If a jewel falls into the mire, it remains as precious as before; and though dust should ascend to heaven, its former worthlessness will not be altered.
- But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law.
- Her rally faltered momentarily when she bunkered her second to lose the 12th to go two down again, but promptly birdied the long fifth with two big hits on to the green and the 14th after an approach shot to within seven feet of the flag.
- Walking along the beach, he saw a tall, heavyset man throwing something into the water, and altered his course to investigate further.
- In his provocative work, Clichés To Live By And The Death Of The Sixties, Anaxamander O'Flaherty, a necro-ethnolinguist at the University of Altamont, suggests that the expression, "Everything is everything," succumbed to a natural death brought on by such factors as over-utilization, deterioration of relevance, and lack of adaptability to altered states of reality vis-à-vis the American experience. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 3
- This leads to edema and altered microcirculation in the skin, which results in impaired healing.
- The pattern will indicate placement for buttons and buttonholes but final locations are best determined after the pattern is altered and fitted to you.
- A rather odd thing has just just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker; after being bitten by a radioactive spider, his body chemistry is mutagenically altered in that he can scale walls and ceilings, and he develops a "spider-sense" that warns him of approaching danger. Listal promoted