Patching and Altering

patching

To join or unite the pieces of.
- usage: "patch the skirt"
- synonyms: patch, piece
Provide with a patch; also used metaphorically.
- usage: "The field was patched with snow"
- synonyms: patch
Mend by putting a patch on.
- usage: "patch a hole"
- synonyms: patch, patch up
Repair by adding pieces.
- usage: "She pieced the china cup"
- synonyms: piece, patch

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Patch.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

altering

The sterilization of an animal.
- usage: "they took him to the vet for neutering"
- synonyms: neutering, fixing

Cause to change; make different; cause a transformation.
- usage: "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
- synonyms: change, alter, modify
Become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence.
- usage: "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season"
- synonyms: change, alter, vary
Make an alteration to.
- usage: "This dress needs to be altered"
- synonyms: alter
Insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby.
- synonyms: interpolate, alter, falsify
Remove the ovaries of.
- usage: "Is your cat spayed"
- synonyms: alter, neuter, spay, castrate

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Alter.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary