alter | (verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: castrate, neuter, spay |
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(verb) become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence | Synonyms: change, vary |
(verb) cause to change; make different; cause a transformation | Synonyms: change, modify |
(verb) insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby | Synonyms: falsify, interpolate |
(verb) make an alteration to | - |
alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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alterable | (adjective) capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic | - |
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(adjective) (of the punishment ordered by a court) capable of being changed to one less severe | - |
alteration | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: revision |
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(noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, modification |
(noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: change, modification |
alterative | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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altercate | (verb) have a disagreement over something | Synonyms: argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap |
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altercation | (noun) noisy quarrel | Synonyms: affray, fracas |
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altered | (adjective) changed in form or character without becoming something else | - |
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(adjective) having testicles or ovaries removed | Synonyms: neutered |
(adjective) changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular purpose | Synonyms: adapted |
altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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alternate | (adjective) of leaves and branches etc; first on one side and then on the other in two ranks along an axis; not paired | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternative, substitute |
(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternating |
(adjective) every second one of a series | - |
(noun) someone who takes the place of another person | Synonyms: replacement, surrogate |
(verb) do something in turns | Synonyms: take turns |
(verb) go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions | Synonyms: jump |
(verb) reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action) | Synonyms: flip-flop, flip, interchange, switch, tack |
(verb) be an understudy or alternate for a role | Synonyms: understudy |
(verb) exchange people temporarily to fulfill certain jobs and functions | - |
alternately | (adverb) in an alternating sequence or position | - |
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alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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(adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
alternation | (noun) successive change from one thing or state to another and back again | - |
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alternative | (adjective) necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities | - |
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(adjective) serving or used in place of another | Synonyms: alternate, substitute |
(adjective) pertaining to unconventional choices | - |
(noun) one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen | Synonyms: choice, option |
alternatively | (adverb) in place of, or as an alternative to | Synonyms: instead, or else |
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alternator | (noun) an old term for an electric generator that produces alternating current (especially in automobiles) | - |
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exalted | (adjective) of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style | Synonyms: elevated, grand, high-flown, high-minded, idealistic, lofty, noble-minded, rarefied, rarified, sublime |
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falter | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: faltering, hesitation, waver |
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(verb) speak haltingly | Synonyms: bumble, stammer, stutter |
(verb) walk unsteadily, tripping repeatedly | Synonyms: bumble, stumble |
(verb) move hesitatingly, as if about to give way | Synonyms: waver |
(verb) be unsure or weak | Synonyms: waver |
faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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(noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
falteringly | (adverb) in an unsteady manner | Synonyms: uncertainly, unsteadily |
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goaltender | (noun) the defensive position on an ice hockey or soccer or lacrosse team who stands in front of the goal and tries to prevent opposing players from scoring | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper |
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(noun) the soccer or hockey player assigned to protect the goal | Synonyms: goalie, goalkeeper, netkeeper, netminder |
halter | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, haltere |
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(noun) a woman's top that fastens behind the back and neck leaving the back and arms uncovered | - |
(noun) rope or canvas headgear for a horse, with a rope for leading | Synonyms: hackamore |
(noun) a rope that is used by a hangman to execute persons who have been condemned to death by hanging | Synonyms: hangman's halter, hangman's rope, hemp, hempen necktie |
(verb) prevent the progress or free movement of | Synonyms: cramp, hamper, strangle |
(verb) hang with a halter | - |
haltere | (noun) either of the rudimentary hind wings of dipterous insects; used for maintaining equilibrium during flight | Synonyms: balancer, halter |
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inalterable | (adjective) not capable of being changed or altered | Synonyms: unalterable |
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malted | (adjective) of grain that has been converted into malt | - |
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(noun) a milkshake made with malt powder | Synonyms: malt, malted milk |
palter | (verb) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information | Synonyms: beat around the bush, equivocate, prevaricate, tergiversate |
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paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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psalterium | (noun) the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant | Synonyms: omasum, third stomach |
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psaltery | (noun) an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings | - |
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salted | (adjective) (used especially of meats) preserved in salt | Synonyms: brine-cured, salt-cured |
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salter | (noun) someone who makes or deals in salt | Synonyms: salt merchant |
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(noun) someone who uses salt to preserve meat or fish or other foods | - |
subaltern | (adjective) inferior in rank or status | Synonyms: junior-grade, lower-ranking, lowly, petty, secondary |
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(noun) a British commissioned army officer below the rank of captain | - |
unalterability | (noun) the quality of not being alterable | - |
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(noun) the quality of being fixed and unchangeable | Synonyms: fixedness |
unalterable | (adjective) not capable of being changed or altered | Synonyms: inalterable |
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(adjective) of a sentence; that cannot be changed | - |
(adjective) remaining the same for indefinitely long times | Synonyms: changeless |
unalterably | (adverb) in an unalterable and unchangeable manner | Synonyms: immutably, unassailably, unchangeably |
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unaltered | (adjective) remaining in an original state | Synonyms: unchanged |
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unfaltering | (adjective) marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable | Synonyms: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unshakable, unwavering |
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unfalteringly | (adverb) with determination; in a determined manner | Synonyms: determinedly, unshakably |
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unmalted | (adjective) of grain that has not been converted into malt | - |
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unsalted | (adjective) without salt or seasoning | Synonyms: unseasoned |
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