Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\ properly one who approaches another on account of unlawful love
1. To defile by adultery.
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.
adulterated \adulterated\ adjective
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
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