Thesaurus: adulterate

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1. v. t. To defile by adultery.
2. v. t. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc.
3. v. i. To commit adultery.
4. a. Tainted with adultery.
5. a. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious.
6. adj. mixed with impurities
7. v. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
8. 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. To commit adultery. [Obs.] 1. Tainted with adultery. 2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.
9. To commit adultery. [Obs.]
10. v:100 s. mixed with impurities