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adulterate
/əˈdʌltəɹət/
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What does adulterate mean?
adjective
- (archaic, literary) Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
More meanings (6)
adjective
- (archaic, literary) Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
verb
- (archaic, literary) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
- (archaic, literary) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
- (archaic, literary) To commit adultery with (someone).
- (archaic, literary) To defile (someone) by adultery.
- (archaic, figuratively, literary) To commit adultery.
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IPA pronunciation
/əˈdʌltəɹət/
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He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product.
We seek our friend not sacredly but with an adulterate passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
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Mr. Blades finds too that they disdain to devour our adulterate modern paper.
It is a grievous sin for a milkman to adulterate milk.
If prices are ruling high, they may get much more than four rupees per maund for it, and they adopt all kinds of ingenious devices to adulterate the seed, and increase its weight.