bestow vs alter

bestow and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of bestow include change, modify.

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