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

Affected babies may show symptoms including constipation, poor feeding, drooping eyelid, sluggish pupils, low muscle tone, difficulty sucking and swallowing, weak or altered crying, difficulty breathing, and generalized weakness. —Kerry Breen, CBS News, 14 June 2026

Sleep talking, formally called somniloquy, from the Latin somnus (sleep) and loqui (to speak), is one of the most common altered behaviors in human sleep. —Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026

These altered sections are isolated as target images and sent for more detailed analysis, allowing the system to reduce computing demands while quickly identifying anything unusual beneath the vehicle. —Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 14 June 2026

In 2024, according to court records, a Fort Lauderdale federal jury convicted Escoe of a single count of wire fraud after she was accused of submitting altered bank statements in a bid to obtain a business line of credit in 2020. —David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 8 June 2026

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of alter

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for altered

• unaltered
• faltered