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

So, to return to an earlier example, once the SEAL team mission is complete and the flow state is over, team members might make sense of that experience by still regarding themselves as individuals who, under the right conditions, can make the switch into this altered flow state. —Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024

The supervisor was not immediately available to review the audio, but the press office went ahead and published the altered transcript on the White House website and distributed it to press and on social media in an effort to tamp down the story, AP reported. —Michael Collins, USA TODAY, 1 Nov. 2024

According to the affidavit, it is believed that the menus with the altered QR codes and allergen information were were identified and were not shipped to the restaurants. —Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2024

Disney identified and removed all altered menus before they were shipped to restaurants, according to the complaint. —John Towfighi, CNN, 30 Oct. 2024

Word History

Etymology

from past participle of alter

First Known Use

1563, in the meaning defined at sense 1