industrialize vs alter

industrialize and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of industrialize include change, modify.

industrialize (verb)	alter (verb)
develop industry; become industrial	remove the ovaries of
organize (the production of something) into an industry	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