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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Adulterated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Adulterating}.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter other, properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love. Cf. {Advoutry}.]
1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
2. 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. --Spectator.
Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, verb (used without an object) To commit adultery. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, adjective
1. Tainted with adultery.
2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ly}, adverb -- {A*dul"ter*ate*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adulterate
adjective: mixed with impurities [syn: {adulterated}, {debased}]
verb: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor" [syn: {stretch}, {dilute}, {debase}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
72 Moby Thesaurus words for "adulterate": alloy, attenuate, baptize, bastardize, canker, cheapen, coarsen, confound, contaminate, cook, corrupt, cut, deacon, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denaturalize, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, dilute, distort, doctor, doctor up, etherealize, expand, fake, falsify, fortify, infect, irrigate, juggle, lace, load, manipulate, misuse, pack, pervert, plant, poison, pollute, prostitute, rarefy, ravage, ravish, reduce, retouch, rig, salt, sophisticate, spike, stack, subtilize, taint, tamper with, thin, thin out, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, water, water down, weaken, weight
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