alter
verb (used with object)
to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like; modify.
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Yes; but you must remember that all language is in process of change; letters are taken in and put out for the sake of euphony, and time is also a great alterer of words.
From Cratylus by Benjamin Jowett