misalter

Etymology

From mis- + alter.

misalter means To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To make a change that leaves (something) worse than before.“These are all, besides those which I fore-specified, which have so "misaltered" the liturgy, that it can no more be known to be itself than the strangely-disguised dames which were mentioned in doctor Hall's reproof.”