Crossword-Solution: ALTER 5 letters, 412 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Word Word Type Definition
Alter v. t. To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either
partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
Alter v. t. To agitate; to affect mentally.
Alter v. t. To geld.
Alter v. i. To become, in some respects, different; to vary; to
change; as, the weather alters almost daily; rocks or minerals alter by
exposure.

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Word Anagrams
ALTER anagram ALERT, ARTEL, LARTE, LATER, RATEL, TALER, TELAR

We have 412 clues for the answer “ALTER”

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"Circumstances ___ cases" 1 answer
"Newsweek" big shot 1 answer
Adjust for a better fit 1 answer
Adjust for fit 1 answer
Adjust the fit of 1 answer
Airbrush, perhaps 1 answer
Change one's pants? 1 answer
Change one's skirt? 1 answer
Change pants? 1 answer
Change the fit 1 answer
Change the fit of 1 answer
Change the hemline 1 answer
Change, as a hem 1 answer
Change, as a hemline 1 answer
Change, as clothes 1 answer
Change, as hems 1 answer
Change, as one's clothes 1 answer
Change; vary 1 answer
Crop in a lab, say 1 answer
Do a dress-making job 1 answer
Do a dressmaker's job. 1 answer
Do some remodeling 1 answer
Do some tailoring to 1 answer
Do tailoring on 1 answer
Don't leave alone 1 answer
Don't leave entirely untouched 1 answer
Edit, perhaps at the genetic level 1 answer
Ego leader 1 answer
Ego preceder 1 answer
Ego type 1 answer
Emendate 1 answer
Falsify, say 1 answer
Fix a dress 1 answer
Change or modify 1 answer
Fix at the tailor's 1 answer
Fix for a better fit 1 answer
Fix for fit 1 answer
Fix, as clothing. 1 answer
Get to fit better 1 answer
Imitate a tailor, perhaps 1 answer
Kind of ego 1 answer
Kind of rocker ego 1 answer
Lengthen or shorten 1 answer
Let down, as trousers, e.g. 1 answer
Let down, say 1 answer
Let out at the waist, e.g. 1 answer
Let out the waist of, e.g. 1 answer
Let out, e.g. 1 answer
Let out, in a sense 1 answer
Let out, possibly 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ALTER (5)

The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators.
The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975
Which when the Lord God heard, without delay To Judgement he proceeded on th’ accus’d Serpent though brute, unable to transferre The Guilt on him who made him instrument Of mischief, and polluted from the end Of his Creation; justly then accurst, As vitiated in Nature: more to know Concern’d not Man (since he no further knew) Nor alter’d his offence; yet God at last To Satan first in sin his doom apply’d, Though in mysterious terms, judg’d as then best: And on the Serpent thus his curse let fall.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Apparently he had some time ago reached that entrance to middle age at which a man’s aspect naturally ceases to alter for the term of a dozen years or so; and, artificially, a woman’s does likewise.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
Humanity had been strong, energetic, and intelligent, and had used all its abundant vitality to alter the conditions under which it lived.
The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992
They were busy making the necessary arrangements to alter the route of the Southampton and Portsmouth Sunday League excursions.
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with ALTER (3)

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never closes. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
Jeanette Winterson Written on the Body
Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those who are near you are far away... and this shows that the space around you is beginning to grow vast.... be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take anyone with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able t…
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
A complete stranger has the capacity to alter the life of another irrevocably. This domino effect has the capacity to change the course of an entire world. That is what life is; a chain reaction of individuals colliding with others and influencing their lives without realizing it. A decision that seems miniscule to you, may be monumental to the fate of the world.
J.D. Stroube Caged by Damnation
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 750 times in crossword archives (1953–2025).