Adulterate Definition
ə-dŭltə-rāt
adulterated, adulterates, adulterating
verb
adulterated, adulterates, adulterating
To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.
American Heritage
To make inferior, impure, not genuine, etc. by adding a harmful, less valuable, or prohibited substance.
Webster's New World
To corrupt.
Wiktionary
To spoil by adding impurities.
To adulterate food, drink, drugs, coins, etc.
Wiktionary
To commit adultery.
Wiktionary
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adjective
Spurious; adulterated.
American Heritage
Guilty of adultery; adulterous.
Webster's New World
Adulterous.
American Heritage
Adulterated; not genuine.
Webster's New World
Tending to commit adultery.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
Origin of Adulterate
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Dated 16th Century CE; modified from adulteration, likely with earlier origin in the Latin past‐participle adulteratus.
From Wiktionary
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Latin adulterāre adulterāt- to pollute al-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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