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adulterate::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | debase, dilute, load, stretch |
| Type of | spoil, corrupt |
| Has types | doctor up, sophisticate, doctor, water down |
| Verb group | stretch, extend |
| Derivation | adulterant, adulterator |
adulterate liquor.
adulterate::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | adulterated, debased |
Examples of adulterate
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These middlemen are likely to possess the technology necessary to adulterate raw milk.
From the time.com
Installing numerous security devices would adulterate that atmosphere.
From the time.com
The Mexicans may up the quality of their bud, but it is unlikely they would adulterate it.
From the economist.com
My question, if anyone can help, is whether one can successfully adulterate frozen pastry?
From the guardian.co.uk
One speaks good Chinese when one doesn't have to adulterate it with English, and vice versa.
From the economist.com
Equipment and utensils must be maintained in sanitary condition so as not to adulterate product.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Why adulterate the soup's wonderfully intense parsnip flavors?
From the bostonherald.com
The caplets, far more difficult to adulterate, already make up about 15% of all Tylenol sales.
From the time.com
Facebook has classically been very reluctant to adulterate its social content streams with advertisements.
From the techcrunch.com
- Mixed with impurities
- Load: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
- (adulteration) being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating
- (adulteration) the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)
- Adulterants are chemical substances which should not be contained within other substances (eg. food, beverages, fuels for legal or other reasons). ...
- (Adulteration (wine)) Wine fraud is a form of fraud in which wines are sold to a customer illicitly, usually having the customer spend more money than the product is worth, or causing sickness due to harmful chemicals being mixed into the wine. ...
- To corrupt; To spoil by adding impurities; Tending to commit adultery; Corrupted; impure; adulterated
- (Adulterated) A substance that is not expected to be present in human urine that is identified in the specimen. A substance that is expected to be present in human urine is identified at a concentration so high that it is not consistent with human urine. ...
- (Adulterated) 1. Any pesticide whose strength or purity falls below the quality stated on i...
