alterest
alterest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of alter.
Meaning of alter
Verb
alter (third-person singular simple present alters, present participle altering, simple past and past participle altered)
- To change the form or structure of.
- Near-synonym: tweak
- Synonyms:
- tweak
- To become different.
- […] Passing the song of the hermit bird and the tallying song of my soul, / Victorious song, death’s outlet song, yet varying ever-altering song, […]1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems
- To tailor clothes to make them fit.
- To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
- To affect mentally, as by psychotropic drugs or illness.
- We don't know if he was altered on alcohol or drugs or anything […]2016 February 10, Sydney Pruitt and Claire Ricke (quoting Jeff Barrick), "Police: Man lying in street hit, killed by Capital Metro bus", KXAN
Origin of alterest
alter + -est
Questions about alterest
- What is alterest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
- Alterest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of alter.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: alterest (page history and authors); alter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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