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To change something just enough to deny you touched it at all.
means To make something different from what it was, whether by a small adjustment or a deep transformation.
from From Latin 'alter,' meaning 'the other (of two)' — the same root that gives us 'alternate' and 'alias.' To alter something was, at bottom, to make it into the other one: not quite itself anymore, but its shadow twin.
- legal cousin
- forgery's polite word for the same crime
- origin
- latin alter means the other one
- church sense
- altar is a homophone, not a typo
- tailoring use
- the one alteration nobody calls deception