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/ədˈəltərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Adulterate v. t. (past & past part. adulterated; pres. part. adulterating)

To defile by adultery. (Obs.)

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. "The present war has... adulterated our tongue with strange words."

Synonyms: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.

Adulterate v. i. To commit adultery. (Obs.)

adjective

adulterated adj.

Having been made impure by addition of inferior ingredients; said of substances or foods Note: used ususally of articles of commerce, dulted with less costly materials so as to enhance profit; usually imlying that the dilution is surreptitious and unethical

Synonyms: adulterate, debased

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Etymology of 'Adulterated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Adulterated" Quotes from Famous Books

... who have used the genuine Baker goods for years, expressing their indignation at the attempts of unscrupulous dealers to foist upon them inferior and adulterated articles by fraudulently representing them to be of ...

— Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes • Miss Parloa

... man—hair, eyebrows, mustache, skin, and clothes were all one solid coating of red dust. We were all alike. Even the sugar, paper-wrapped in the bottom of a box, covered by other boxes, bags and a canvas, became adulterated almost past use. ...

— A Woman Tenderfoot • Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson

... of the Carpathians. The heat of the day was intense, and there was not much in the immediate neighbourhood to tempt us out in the broiling sun, so we just got through the time as best we could. The food was very bad and the wine execrable, an adulterated mixture not worthy of the name. This is a rare occurrence in Hungary, and it ought not to have been the case here, for there are good vineyards close ...

— Round About the Carpathians • Andrew F. Crosse

... delicate. Add to the solution to be tested, a few drops of blue vitriol, and then a quantity of potassa solution, and apply heat; if the cane sugar is pure, the liquor will remain blue, while, if it be adulterated with starch sugar, it will assume a ...

— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom • P. L. Simmonds

... hosts of people who buy it undisguised or not, according as they count it an improvement to their coffee or a disagreeable adulterant. So great is the demand for chicory that, notwithstanding its cheapness, it is often in its turn adulterated with roasted wheat, rye, acorns, and carrots. Forced and blanched in a warm, dark place, the bitter leaves find a ready market as a salad known as "barbe de Capucin" by the fanciful French. Endive and dandelion, the ...

— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

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