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altered
(encz) | altered,pozměněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
altered
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altered
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Altered
(gcide) | Alter \Al"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Altered; p. pr. & vb. n.
Altering.] [F. alt['e]rer, LL. alterare, fr. L. alter
other, alius other. Cf. Else, Other.]
1. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either
partially or wholly; to vary; to modify. "To alter the
king's course." "To alter the condition of a man." "No
power in Venice can alter a decree." --Shak.
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It gilds all objects, but it alters none. --Pope.
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My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing
that is gone out of my lips. --Ps. lxxxix.
34.
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2. To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] --Milton.
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3. To geld. [Colloq.]
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Syn: Change, Alter.
Usage: Change is generic and the stronger term. It may
express a loss of identity, or the substitution of one
thing in place of another; alter commonly expresses a
partial change, or a change in form or details without
destroying identity.
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altered
(wn) | altered
adj 1: changed in form or character without becoming something
else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following
an altered course we soon found ourselves back in
civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an
altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens [ant:
unaltered, unchanged]
2: having testicles or ovaries removed [syn: altered,
neutered]
3: 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" [syn:
adapted, altered] |
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altered
(encz) | altered,pozměněný adj: Zdeněk Brožaltered,proměněný adj: altered,změněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
unaltered
(encz) | unaltered,nezměněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Faltered
(gcide) | Falter \Fal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Faltered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Faltering.] [OE. falteren, faltren, prob. from fault.
See Fault, v. & n.]
1. To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as,
his tongue falters.
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With faltering speech and visage incomposed.
--Milton.
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2. To tremble; to totter; to be unsteady. "He found his legs
falter." --Wiseman.
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3. To hesitate in purpose or action.
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Ere her native king
Shall falter under foul rebellion's arms. --Shak.
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4. To fail in distinctness or regularity of exercise; -- said
of the mind or of thought.
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Here indeed the power of disinct conception of space
and distance falters. --I. Taylor.
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Haltered
(gcide) | Halter \Hal"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Haltered (-t[~e]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Haltering.]
To tie by the neck with a rope, strap, or halter; to put a
halter on; to subject to a hangman's halter. "A haltered
neck." --Shak.
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Paltered
(gcide) | Palter \Pal"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Paltered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Paltering.] [See Paltry.]
1. To haggle. [Obs.] --Cotgrave.
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2. To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to
equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.
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Romans, that have spoke the word,
And will not palter. --Shak.
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Who never sold the truth to serve the hour,
Nor paltered with eternal God for power. --Tennyson.
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3. To babble; to chatter. [Obs.]
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Unaltered
(gcide) | Unaltered \Unaltered\
See altered. |
altered
(wn) | altered
adj 1: changed in form or character without becoming something
else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following
an altered course we soon found ourselves back in
civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an
altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens [ant:
unaltered, unchanged]
2: having testicles or ovaries removed [syn: altered,
neutered]
3: 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" [syn:
adapted, altered] |
unaltered
(wn) | unaltered
adj 1: remaining in an original state; "persisting unaltered
through time" [syn: unaltered, unchanged] [ant:
altered] |
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