vesiculate vs alter

vesiculate and alter both are verbs.

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

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

Other hypernyms of vesiculate include change, modify.

vesiculate (verb)	alter (verb)
cause to become vesicular or full of air cells	remove the ovaries of
become vesicular or full of air cells	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