acerbate vs alter

acerbate and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of acerbate include change, modify.

acerbate (verb)	alter (verb)
make sour or bitter	remove the ovaries of
cause to be bitter or resentful	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