Emily Dickinson Lexicon

alter (-ed, -s), v. [Fr. < L. alter, other.] (webplay: change, day, entire, God, higher, manner, nature, night, only, place, summer, time, turns).

1. Reform; repent; improve; amend; progress; become a different person.
2. Modulate; adapt; mutate; become different.
3. Age; grow older; change with the passage of time.
4. Withdraw; retreat; regress; backslide; abandon love or loyalty.
5. Transform; renew; convert; rejuvenate; restore; revitalize; make different.
6. Revise; adjust; modify; refashion; diminish or enlarge; [fig.] tailor; cut or sew to correspond to a shape or size.