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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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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.
ADULTERATE definition: 1. to make food or drink weaker or to lower its quality, by adding something else: 2. to make food…. Learn more.
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.”.
adulterate - corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"
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] Synonyms: debase, thin, weaken, corrupt More Synonyms of adulterate
Adulterate definition: to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article). See examples of ADULTERATE used in a sentence.
Definition of adulterate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
the act of making food or drugs worse in quality by adding something to them: The adulteration of poultry is considered a serious problem. The presence of low levels of melamine in milk is not necessarily due to adulteration. See. adulterate. Fewer examples. He was charged with one count of misbranding and adulteration of a drug.
A complete guide to the word "ADULTERATE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.
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.
