democratise vs alter

democratise and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of democratise include change, modify.

democratise (verb)	alter (verb)
become (more) democratic; of nations	remove the ovaries of
introduce democratic reforms; of nations	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