bedim vs alter

bedim and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of bedim include change, modify.

bedim (verb)	alter (verb)
make darker and difficult to perceive by sight	remove the ovaries of
make unintelligible or unclear	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