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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]:
adulterated \adulterated\ adjective
1. having been made impure by addition of inferior ingredients; -- said of substances or foods
Note: used ususally of articles of commerce, dulted with less costly materials so as to enhance profit; -- usually imlying that the dilution is surreptitious and unethical
Syn: adulterate, debased [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adulterated
adjective: mixed with impurities [syn: {adulterate}, {debased}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "adulterated": airy, attenuate, attenuated, blemished, cut, damaged, defective, deficient, dilute, diluted, erroneous, ethereal, fallible, faulty, fine, flimsy, found wanting, gaseous, immature, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inexact, insubstantial, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, mixed, not perfect, off, partial, patchy, rare, rarefied, reduced, short, sketchy, slight, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned, thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, undeveloped, uneven, unfinished, unperfected, unsound, unsubstantial, unthorough, vaporous, wanting, watered, watered-down, windy
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