incandesce vs alter

incandesce and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of incandesce include change, modify.

incandesce (verb)	alter (verb)
become incandescent or glow with heat	remove the ovaries of
cause to become incandescent or glow	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