ease up vs alter

ease up and alter both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
ease up	No	No	Yes	No
alter	No	No	Yes	No

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

Other hypernyms of ease up include change, modify.

ease up (verb)	alter (verb)
become less intense	remove the ovaries of
reduce pressure or intensity	become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
move in order to make room for someone for something	cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
	insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
	make an alteration to