MISALTERING Synonyms

• marked by continuous change or effective action

• putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form

• editing that involves writing something again

• the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something)

• make fit for, or change to suit a new purpose

• adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions

• make amendments to

• to make better

• set straight or right

• make less severe or harsh or extreme

• add a modifier to a constituent

• cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

• a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses

• a campaign aimed to correct abuses or malpractices

• self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice

• make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices

• bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one

• produce by cracking

• break up the molecules of

• improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition

• change for the better

• shape anew or differently

• shape again or shape differently

• use again in altered form

• subject to a mathematical transformation

• change or alter in form, appearance, or nature

• change in outward structure or looks

• change from one form or medium into another

• convert (one form of energy) to another

• change (a bacterial cell) into a genetically distinct cell by the introduction of DNA from another cell of the same or closely related species

• increase or decrease (an alternating current or voltage)