altered

adjective

al·​tered ˈȯl-tərd 

1

: made different in some way

… she addressed me again, speaking in very altered tones; so altered, that I hardly recognised them as hers.

—Wilkie Collins

… no great change had taken place inside him, but his exterior was visibly altered.

—Booth Tarkington

2

: castrated sense 1a

I've noticed that my altered cats and my older cats have more dandruff than the unaltered and younger ones.

—Susie Page

Examples of altered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The photo of the students with the U.S. flag also includes elements that are covered up in the altered version, such as the thumb of a student gripping the bottom portion of the flag. —Andre Byik, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024

The first thing the visitor’s eye falls on is Constantin Brancusi’s ovid bronze, The Sleeping Muse of 1910, a solid take on an altered state of being where dreams exist. —Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 May 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of alter

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1