Americanize vs alter

Americanize and alter both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Americanize	No	No	Yes	No
alter	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, alter is a hypernym of Americanize; that is, alter is a word with a broader meaning than Americanize:

Other hypernyms of Americanize include change, modify.

Americanize (verb)	alter (verb)
become American in character	remove the ovaries of
make American in character	become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
	cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
	insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
	make an alteration to