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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Adulteration \A*dul'ter*a"tion\, noun [L. adulteratio.]
1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
The shameless adulteration of the coin. --Prescott.
2. An adulterated state or product.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adulteration
noun
1: being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adultering [syn: {debasement}]
2: the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)
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