evaporate vs alter

evaporate and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of evaporate include change, modify.

evaporate (verb)	alter (verb)
lose or cause to lose liquid by vaporization leaving a more concentrated residue	remove the ovaries of
change into a vapor	become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence
cause to change into a vapor	cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
become less intense and fade away gradually	insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby
	make an alteration to