ADULTERATE

v. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

2.
v.

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.

3.
v.

To commit adultery. [Obs.]

4.
a.

Tainted with adultery.

5.
a.

Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.

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