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To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

Why synonyms can be useful

Your writing can sound boring if you continually keep repeating the same words. When you create sentences, you can make them more interesting by using words that mean the same as the word you are speaking about. This allows you to add flavor to your writing.

In order to make language a lot more expressive and interesting you should try to vary the words you use as often as you can.

Synonyms for (verb) alter

Synonyms: castrate, alter, spay, neuter Definition: remove the ovaries of Usage: Is your cat spayed?

Hypernyms: unsex, fix, sterilise, sterilize, desex, desexualise, desexualize Definition: make infertile Usage: in some countries, people with genetically transmissible disabilites are sterilized

Synonyms: falsify, alter, interpolate Definition: insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

Hypernyms: edit, redact Definition: prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting Usage: Edit a book on lexical semantics; she edited the letters of the politician so as to omit the most personal passages

Synonyms: alter Definition: make an alteration to Usage: This dress needs to be altered

Hypernyms: alter, change, modify Definition: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation Usage: The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city; The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue