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

Among the altered naming narratives is the one surrounding Hauser Avenue, which runs for a few blocks north of Capitol Drive from Green Bay Avenue to North 15th Street. —Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 6 Aug. 2025

The motion also says the former majority-minority precincts that were the most significantly altered were not protected under the Voting Rights Act (VRA) and the Constitution. —Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Aug. 2025

In April, Warner Bros. announced that an altered version of The Wizard of Oz (1939) would play inside the Las Vegas Sphere, with the help of Google’s engineers—alterations to the film are estimated to have cost $80 million dollars. —Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 30 July 2025

But what if their altered cells impact the baby in some way? —Eliana Dockterman, Time, 25 July 2025

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of alter

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for altered

• unaltered
• faltered