Adulterate

Quick meaning: Adulterate is an adjective meaning Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.

Meaning

Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.

More Meanings

1. Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
2. (transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
3. (transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
4. (transitive, archaic) To commit adultery with (someone).
5. (transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.
6. (intransitive, also figuratively, archaic) To commit adultery.

Example Sentences

to adulterate coins, drugs, food and drink, etc.

I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]

[C]urse the day / When first Spain's queen beheld the black-ey'd boy, / And gore-fac'd Treason sprung from her adulterate joy.

Theſe, and other like places in abundance through all thoſe ſhort Epiſtles, muſt either be adulterat, or elſe Ignatius [of Antioch] was not Ignatius, nor a Martyr, but moſt adulterate, and corrupt himſelf.

Word Forms

• adulterates
• adulterating
• adulterated
• adulteratest
• adulteratedst
• adulterateth

Synonyms for adulterate

Depending on context, synonyms include abase, adulter, adulterize, alloy, balderdash, corrupt.

Antonyms for adulterate

Common opposites include enrich, rectify, refine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include debase, debased, dilute, stretch, sophisticate, doctor.

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