Europeanise vs alter

Europeanise and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Europeanise: denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations
alter: cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

Other hypernyms of Europeanise include change, modify.

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

Other hypernyms of Europeanise include change, modify.

Europeanise (verb)	alter (verb)
denationalize and subject (a territory) to the supervision of an agency of a European community of nations	remove the ovaries of
make (continental) European in customs, character, or ideas	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