adulterated
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adulterated};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Adulterating}.] [L. adulteratus, p. p. of
adulterare, fr. adulter adulterer, prob. fr. ad + alter
other, properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf. {Advoutry}.]
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1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,
drink, drugs, coin, etc.
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The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue
with strange words. --Spectator.
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Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate;
sophisticate.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
adulterated \adulterated\ adj.
1. having been made impure by addition of inferior
ingredients; -- said of substances or foods
Note: used ususally of articles of commerce, dulted with less
costly materials so as to enhance profit; -- usually
imlying that the dilution is surreptitious and
unethical
Syn: adulterate, debased
[WordNet 1.5]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "adulterated":
airy, attenuate, attenuated, blemished, cut, damaged, defective,
deficient, dilute, diluted, erroneous, ethereal, fallible, faulty,
fine, flimsy, found wanting, gaseous, immature, impaired,
imperfect, imprecise, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete,
inexact, insubstantial, lacking, makeshift, mediocre, mixed,
not perfect, off, partial, patchy, rare, rarefied, reduced, short,
sketchy, slight, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thin, thinned,
thinned-out, uncompact, uncompressed, undeveloped, uneven,
unfinished, unperfected, unsound, unsubstantial, unthorough,
vaporous, wanting, watered, watered-down, windy
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