 5 definitions found
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 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 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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