adulterate
to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article): to adulterate food.
impure or debased; cheapened in quality or purity.
Origin of adulterate
1Other words from adulterate
- a·dul·ter·a·tor, noun
- un·a·dul·ter·ate, adjective
Words that may be confused with adulterate
- adulterer, adulterate
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How to use adulterate in a sentence
Fish oil being of about, if not quite, the same specific gravity as pure linseed oil, the adulterator can beat the hydrometer.
Practical Carriage and Wagon Painting | Mayton Clarence HillickSome knowledge of chemistry figures in the mental outfit of every dynamiter and adulterator of foods.
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British Dictionary definitions for adulterate
(tr) to debase by adding inferior material: to adulterate milk with water
Origin of adulterate
1Derived forms of adulterate
- adulteration, noun
- adulterator, noun
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