vaporise vs alter

vaporise and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of vaporise include change, modify.

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