romanticise vs alter

romanticise and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of romanticise include change, modify.

romanticise (verb)	alter (verb)
make romantic in style	remove the ovaries of
interpret romantically	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