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- Dictionarya·dul·ter·ate/əˈdəltəˌrāt/
verb
- 1. render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance, typically an inferior one: "the meat was ground fine and adulterated with potato flour"
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If you adulterate something, you mess it up. You may not want to adulterate the beauty of freshly fallen snow by shoveling it, but how else are you going to get to work? The verb adulterate comes from the Latin word adulterare, which means “to falsify,” or “to corrupt.”.
Adulterate means to make food or drink weaker or lower its quality by adding something else. Learn more about this verb, its pronunciation, synonyms, and translations in different languages.
Adulterate definition: to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article). See examples of ADULTERATE used in a sentence.
Adulterate means to make something worse by adding inferior or harmful substances to it. It can also mean to commit adultery or be unfaithful. Learn more about the word origin, usage, and related terms.
the act of making food or drugs worse in quality by adding something to them: The adulteration of poultry is considered a serious problem. The presence of low levels of melamine in milk is not necessarily due to adulteration. See. adulterate. Fewer examples. He was charged with one count of misbranding and adulteration of a drug.
Adulterate means to make impure by adding inferior or foreign substances, or to debase or corrupt something. Find the origin, usage, and examples of adulterate and its related words in this online dictionary.
