Key: "S:" = Show Synset (semantic) relations, "W:" = Show Word (lexical) relations
Display options for sense: (gloss) "an example sentence"
Verb
S: (v) change, alter, modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation) "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
S: (v) change, alter, vary (become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence) "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
S: (v) alter (make an alteration to) "This dress needs to be altered"
W: (adj) alterable [Related to: alter] (capable of being changed or altered in some characteristic) "alterable clothing"; "alterable conditions of employment"
W: (n) alteration [Related to: alter] (the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment))
W: (n) neuter [Related to: neuter] (a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine))
W: (n) spaying [Related to: spay] (neutering a female by removing the ovaries)
W: (n) castration [Related to: castrate] (surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men)) "bilateral castration results in sterilization"
W: (n) neutering [Related to: castrate] (the sterilization of an animal) "they took him to the vet for neutering"