wake up vs alter

wake up and alter both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
wake up	No	No	Yes	No
alter	No	No	Yes	No

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

Other hypernyms of wake up include change, modify.

wake up (verb)	alter (verb)
stop sleeping	remove the ovaries of
cause to become awake or conscious	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