Adulterate

Word ADULTERATE
Character 10
Hyphenation a dul ter ate
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Adulterate"

What do we mean by adulterate?

To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients. transitive verb

Spurious; adulterated. adjective

Adulterous. adjective

Tainted with adultery: as, “the adulterate Hastings,”

Debased by foreign mixture; adulterated: as, “adulterate copper,” Swift, Miscellanies.

To debase or deteriorate by an admixture of foreign or baser materials or elements: as, to adulterate food, drugs, or coins; adulterated doctrines.

To graft; give a hybrid character to.

To defile by adultery.

Synonyms To mix, degrade, corrupt, contaminate, vitiate, alloy, sophisticate.

To commit adultery.

To commit adultery. intransitive verb

To defile by adultery. transitive verb

To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance transitive verb

Tainted with adultery. adjective

Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. adjective

Tending to commit adultery. adjective

Corrupted; impure; adulterated. adjective

To corrupt. verb

To spoil by adding impurities. verb

Mixed with impurities adjective

To corrupt.

To spoil by adding impurities.

To commit adultery.

To defile by adultery.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Adulterate

The word "adulterate" in example sentences

The word 'adulterate' means 'to make impure, spurious or inferior by adding extraneous or improper ingredients' and I guess this applies to learning new values and ideas as filling our heads with extraneous or improper ingredients as well. ❋ Tim Hanni (2010)

"adulterate" stages where "noise prevails," and "not a tongue of th 'untun'd kennel can a line repeat of serious sense." ❋ Joseph Quincy Adams (1913)

He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children. ❋ Unknown (2010)

For the freedom to vote, electoral documents adulterate or use fraudulent means to circumvent the popular will; ❋ Unknown (2009)

Meanwhile anti-foreign sentiments grew in the Tang court culminating in a decree in 845 ordering monks of the ‘Religion of Light’ to return to lay life ‘so that they will not adulterate the customs of China.’ ❋ Unknown (2008)

As for whether or not homosexuals want special rights –they have all the same civil rights straights have –the right to sin, fornicate, adulterate and commit buggery in privacy with consenting adults behind their doors and even the right to commit and be faithful to a homosexual partner –but they also have the right to be straight and moral and marry one of the opposite sex and be faithful to that spouse. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This stuff was vile, with the dusty oversweet industrial taste of the Chinese corn syrup that had been used to adulterate it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The 90% of temperature stations which are unreliable are used to adulterate by cross reference the very small number of reliable temperature stations. ❋ EliRabett (2010)

I simply like pie crust too much to adulterate it by letting cheddar cheese melt all over the top. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I don't really understand why we in America have to adulterate all our food. ❋ Anne-Marie (2008)

In other words, by nature, mental activity is clear of various "stains" which do not adulterate it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We need to decorporate all those corporations that adulterate our environment, our bodies, and our minds. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Smooth enough to drink straight; too fine to adulterate with even ice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The idea, Richard said, was to institute “classic, authentic items and not adulterate them” by adjusting them for the American palate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's just laughable to think that a park sign in Spanish is going to adulterate my conception of what it means to be an American. ❋ David (2007)

There are perturbed folks who fear these hybrids adulterate the joy of reading as we know it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The emphasis is on removing any disturbing elements that block or adulterate intuitive feelings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And as new ways of staying connected, entertained and virtually 'social' grow and become mainstream, one has to wonder how these new forms of bonding will adulterate the one we cannot imitate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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