alters
Tweaks or transforms
Alters is the third-person singular of alter, meaning to change or modify something: She alters her schedule weekly.
In clothing, alters means to adjust fit: The tailor alters suits.
In psychology and online communities, alters refers to distinct identities or personalities within a person who has dissociative identity disorder: Her alters have different names and ages.
Those who switched faiths
- transmutesChanges in nature
- metamorphosesThorough changes in form
- transfiguresChanges appearance dramatically
- revolutionizesChanges something dramatically
reinvents · overhauls · reshapes · remodels · restructures · reconfigures · revamps · reforms
Minor adjustment
- fine-tuneAdjust for optimal performance
- calibrateAdjust for accuracy
- regulateControl by rules
- adjustChange to fit better
modify · correct · amend · revise · refine · tune · adapt · reconfigure
Sewing a fabric edge
- taking inReceiving into oneself
- letting outAllowing to escape
- shorteningReducing length or duration
- lengtheningIncreasing in extent
resizing · fitting · adjusting · mending · darting · tapering · nipping · seamstress
converts
Those who switched faiths
- transmutesChanges in nature
- metamorphosesThorough changes in form
- transfiguresChanges appearance dramatically
revolutionizes · reinvents · overhauls · reshapes · remodels · restructures · reconfigures · revamps · reforms · mutates
tweak
Minor adjustment
adjust · modify · correct · amend · revise · refine · tune · adapt · reconfigure · customize
hemming
Sewing a fabric edge
- taking inReceiving into oneself
- letting outAllowing to escape
- shorteningReducing length or duration
lengthening · resizing · fitting · adjusting · mending · darting · tapering · nipping · seamstress · tailor
- Dissociationdissociation, depersonalization, derealization, multiple personality disorder, fugue state
- distortionsdistort, distorts, deform, warp, twist
- takes inabsorbs, admits, accepts, receives, includes
altersmaintains
Keeps in condition
preserves · keeps · conserves · sustains · stabilizes
altersfixes
Repairs or solutions
stabilizes · freezes · solidifies · cements · locks in
- alter egoA secondary persona
- no alternativeSole available course
- alternative routeSecondary path available
- alternative universeHypothetical divergent reality
- alternative rockNon-mainstream guitar-driven genre
- alternative energyNon-fossil fuel sources
alter, alternative, altered, alteration, altering, unaltered, unalterable, alterable, alternatively