Alter and Construct

Alter

Alter verb - To make different in some way.

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Construct and alter are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Construct" instead a verb "Alter".

Nearby Words: alteration, altering, alterable

Construct verb - To create or think of by clever use of the imagination.

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Alter and construct are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alter" instead a verb "Construct".

life	alter life	construct life
body	alter body	construct body
way	alter way	construct way
plan	alter plan	construct plan
Other words: universe, story, objects, bodies, dreams, timeline.

One of the game's missions had Polly decide to alter the reason Leonardo da Vinci wasn't about to construct a helicopter after designing it on paper by invoking this trope.

Source: Spill Stain Sabotage
To construct a working community of species able to survive, they alter the gate system to create a closed loop containing only those who have encountered the terraformers in the past 80 years.

Source: Grand Unified Timeline / The Twenty Second Century
Mismeasurement: In one comic, the evil knights would construct a siege tower to get over the town wall, but at night the heroes would sneak into the knights' encampment and alter the plans just enough to foil the plan.

Source: Comic Book / Kajko I Kokosz

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