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ADULTERATE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does adulterate mean?

• ADULTERATE (adjective)
The adjective ADULTERATE has 1 sense:

1. mixed with impurities

Familiarity information: ADULTERATE used as an adjective is very rare.

• ADULTERATE (verb)
The verb ADULTERATE has 1 sense:

1. corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

Familiarity information: ADULTERATE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ADULTERATE (adjective)

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Meaning:

Mixed with impurities

Synonyms:

adulterate; adulterated; debased

Similar:

impure (combined with extraneous elements)

• ADULTERATE (verb)

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Meaning:

Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

adulterate; dilute; debase; stretch

Context example:

adulterate liquor

Hypernyms (to "adulterate" is one way to...):

corrupt; spoil (alter from the original)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "adulterate"):

water down (thin by adding water to)

doctor; doctor up; sophisticate (alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

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