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verb
- 1. render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance: "the brewer is said to adulterate his beer"
adjective
- 1. not pure or genuine: archaic "adulterate remedies"
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ADULTERATE definition: 1. to make food or drink weaker or to lower its quality, by adding something else: 2. to make food…. Learn more.
The meaning of ADULTERATE is to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element; especially : to prepare for sale by replacing more valuable with less valuable or inert ingredients. How to use adulterate in a sentence.
If you adulterate something, you mess it up. You may not want to adulterate the beauty of freshly fallen snow by shoveling it, but how else are you going to get to work? The verb adulterate comes from the Latin word adulterare, which means “to falsify,” or “to corrupt.”.
(ədʌltəreɪt ) Word forms: adulterates , adulterating , adulterated. verb [usually passive] If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it. The food had been adulterated to increase its weight. [be VERB -ed] There is a regulation against adulterated cosmetics. [VERB-ed]
verb. /əˈdʌltəreɪt/ [often passive] Verb Forms. to make food or drink less pure by adding another substance to it synonym contaminate. be adulterated (with something) The water supply had been adulterated with chemicals from the soil. see also unadulterated. Word Origin. Definitions on the go.
The earliest known use of the verb adulterate is in the early 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for adulterate is from around 1526, in the writing of John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr. It is also recorded as an adjective from the early 1500s. adulterate is a borrowing from Latin.
ADULTERATE meaning: 1. to make food or drink weaker or to lower its quality, by adding something else: 2. to make food…. Learn more.
