Alternate and Modify

Alternate

Alternate verb - Go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions.

Modify and alternate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Modify" instead a verb "Alternate".

Modify

Modify verb - To limit the meaning of (as a noun).

Alternate and modify are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Alternate" instead a verb "Modify".

Common collocations

time alternate time modify time
plan alternate plan modify plan

Both words in one sentence

  • Light Novel / Magician's Academy Fridge Horror when you realize in the alternate universe he was going under severe depression — the proposed solution appears to have been to find a way to modify the past so he would kill himself before creating Tanarot.
  • Nieslp is admitted to be what happens when they "take an Andalite from Animorphs and kinda modify it a bit." The Voice is essentially The Shadow Flash Sideways: Several characters have dreams/nightmares of their alternate selves in Darkwing's universe.
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