Apedia

Alter Cat ɔːltər V 改变 Rains Plan Picnic

Front alter
Pron ['ɔːltər]
Back 【alter】
v. 改变
If it rains, we have to alter our plan to have a picnic on Sunday.
如果星期天下雨,我们就得改变野餐的计划。
Vocab
altercause to change; make different; cause a transformation

After eating too many gingerbread cookies, she no longer fit into her uniform, so she had a seamstress alter it. It looked pretty much the same.

The verb alter can also mean to neuter or spay. Think of a cat that has just been spayed: the cat you pick up from the vet is the same cat that you dropped off there, only perhaps a little groggy and unable to reproduce. While the cat has been altered, it's not a different cat.

All forms of 'alter' will appear on average once every 120 pages.
alter
alterable
alteration
alterative
altered
altering
alterability
inalterable
unalterable
unaltered
unalterability
unalterably

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Ascent upward made ə'sent n 攀登;上升 chinese mountain

Previous card: Altar god raised gifts sacrifices offerings place latin

Up to card list: 刘毅突破词汇10000