habituate vs alter

habituate and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of habituate include change, modify.

habituate (verb)	alter (verb)
make psychologically or physically used (to something)	remove the ovaries of
take or consume (regularly or habitually)	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