adulteration
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təˈreɪ noun
1.
the act or process of adulterating.
2.
the state of being adulterated.
3.
something adulterated.
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| adulterate | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (tr) to debase by adding inferior material: to adulterate milk with water |
| —adj | |
| 2. | adulterated; debased or impure |
| 3. | a less common word for adulterous |
| [C16: from Latin adulterāre to corrupt, commit adultery, probably from alter another, hence to approach another, commit adultery] | |
| adulter'ation | |
| —n | |
| a'dulterator | |
| —n | |
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Adulteration
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
adulteration
c.1500, from L. adulterationem (nom. adulteratio), from adulteratus, pp. of adulterare "corrupt, debauch," from ad- "to" + L.L. alterare "to alter" (see alter).
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Medical Dictionary
adulteration a·dul·ter·a·tion (ə-dŭl'tə-rā'shən)
n.
The alteration, especially the debasement, of a substance by deliberately adding something not ordinarily a part of it.
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Example sentences
One way to mask illicit adulteration is to add vegetable oil to boost the fat count and melamine to rig the protein figure.
One thing to remember in all of this is that there have been examples of adulteration, deliberate and otherwise in homeopathy.
It is suspected that the contamination occurred by direct adulteration with dried manure.
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