Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Adulterating   Listen
verb
Adulterate  v. t.  (past & past part. adulterated; pres. part. adulterating)  
1.
To defile by adultery. (Obs.)
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."
Synonyms: To corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.


Adulterate  v. i.  To commit adultery. (Obs.)


adjective
adulterating  adj.  
1.
Making impure or corrupt by virtue of extraneous origin; of impurities. "The adulterating effect of extraneous materials". Antonym: purifying.
Synonyms: adulterant
2.
Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; of people.
Synonyms: adulterant.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Adulterating" Quotes from Famous Books



... the one who on all occasions produces pure poetry and nothing else? Without affirming that it is so, we may at least ask the question. If other poets of our time show more intellectual strength than he, are they, perchance, given sometimes to adulterating their poetry with ratiocination and didactic preachments such as were better left to the proseman? Without affirming that it is so, we may at least ask the question. If other poets of our time can reach a finer frenzy ...
— Old Familiar Faces • Theodore Watts-Dunton
... mixture of which the leaves and twigs of scrub oak and other trees form the largest part. The Ya-chou tea, when gathered and dried, is bought up and brought into the towns to be made into the brick tea of Tibetan commerce. The preparation consists in chopping fine the tea and adulterating leaves and twigs. After adding a little rice-water the whole is packed in cylinders of bamboo matting, each package weighing from sixteen to eighteen catties. It is estimated that the cost to the manufacturers, exclusive of packing, is about thirty-two cash a catty, somewhat less than a cent ...
— A Wayfarer in China - Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia • Elizabeth Kendall
... church; another hall teaches how far a business man may venture into prevarication without lying; while a still larger hall is devoted to the wholesale trade, and is intended to teach the best methods of adulterating foods while yet allowing them to be ...
— Mr. World and Miss Church-Member • W. S. Harris


Copyright © 2025 Free Translator.org