Altered
Altered adjective - Changed in form or character without becoming something else.
Usage example: "he looked...with clouded eyes and with an altered manner of breathing"- Charles Dickens
Edited and altered are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Edited" instead the word "Altered" as an adjective or a verb.
Edited
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- Written by the Winners: In Nightmare Moon's Equestria, history has been altered and edited to wipe out knowledge of Celestia and her day, to the point that words like 'dawn', 'sun', and (notably) 'twilight' are eradicated from the Equestrian lexicon.
Source: Fan Fic / Nights Favored Child - On the DVD, the photo has been digitally altered to include Walger (and was edited for the rerun as well).
Source: Orwellian Retcon - The Broons bi-annuals (which reprint the Sunday Post strips from 3-4 years before) were also edited to remove references to the engagement, with any wedding-planning stories altered so that it was a friend of the Broons getting married instead.
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Edited and Altered. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 15, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/altered/edited
Altered & Edited. N.p., 2016. Web. 15 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/altered/edited>.
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