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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Adulterate \A*dul"ter*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Adulterated};
p. pr & vb n. {Adulterating}.] [L. adulteratus p. p. of
adulterare fr adulter adulterer, prob. fr ad + alter
other properly one who approaches another on account of
unlawful love. Cf {Advoutry}.]
1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] --Milton.
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
adulterated
adj : mixed with impurities [syn: {adulterate}, {debased}]
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