Alter vs Displace - What's the difference?
alter | displace |
To change the form or structure of.
* Bible, Psalms lxxxix. 34
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
To become different.
To tailor clothes to make them fit.
To castrate, neuter or spay (a dog or other animal).
(obsolete) To agitate; to affect mentally.
To move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.
To supplant, or take the place of something or someone; to substitute.
(of a floating ship) To have a weight equal to that of the water displaced.
As an adjective alter
is .As a verb displace is
to move something, or someone, especially to forcibly move people from their homeland.alter
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Alternative forms
* altre (obsolete)Verb
(en verb)- My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
- No power in Venice can alter a decree.
- It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
- (Milton)