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Vocabulary trainer| English Dictionary: adulterated | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for adulterated | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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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}.] 1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton. 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. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. --Spectator. Syn: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate. | |
