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Meaning of altered

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  altered
      adj 1: changed in form or character without becoming something
             else; "the altered policy promised success"; "following
             an altered course we soon found ourselves back in
             civilization"; "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an
             altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens [ant:
             {unaltered}, {unchanged}]
      2: having testicles or ovaries removed [syn: {altered},
         {neutered}]
      3: changed in order to improve or made more fit for a particular
         purpose; "seeds precisely adapted to the area"; "instructions
         altered to suit the children's different ages" [syn:
         {adapted}, {altered}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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