adulterated

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a·dul·ter·ate

(ə-dŭl′tə-rāt′)

tr.v. a·dul·ter·at·ed, a·dul·ter·at·ing, a·dul·ter·ates

To make impure by adding extraneous, improper, or inferior ingredients.

adj. (-tər-ĭt) Archaic

1. Spurious; adulterated.

2. Adulterous.

[Latin adulterāre, adulterāt-, to pollute; see al- in Indo-European roots.]

a·dul′ter·a′tion n.

a·dul′ter·a′tor n.

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Adj.

adulterated - mixed with impurities

adulterate, debased

impure - combined with extraneous elements

adulterated

adjective debased, mixed, contaminated, polluted, depreciated, reduced, lowered, impure The least adulterated pork sausages are your best bet.

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adulterated

adjective

Mixed with other substances:

alloyed, doctored, impure, loaded, sophisticated.

Translations

adulterato contraffatto

adulterated

adj adulterado

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You shut your eyes to that awkward fact, and swallow your adulterated mess in various articles of food; and you and your sugar get on together in that way as well as you can.

"May I ask how you know that my niece is not an adulterated article, like the rest of them?"

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A commodity which is a more or less adulterated condition the State sells to the citizen as a reward for his allegiance, taxes and personal service.

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And which of us poets hath not adulterated his wine?

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When the children were not well at home, Teta Elzbieta would gather herbs and cure them; now she was obliged to go to the drugstore and buy extracts--and how was she to know that they were all adulterated? How could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes?

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Never had Captain Wragge burned his adulterated incense on the flimsy altar of human vanity to better purpose than he was burning it now.

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I suppose one reason why we are seldom able to comfort our neighbours with our words is that our goodwill gets adulterated, in spite of ourselves, before it can pass our lips.

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Lynde says you can never be sure of getting good baking powder nowadays when everything is so adulterated. Mrs.

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She also stumbled, with a large balance of success against her failures, through various philanthropic recommendations to Try our Mixture, Try our Family Black, Try our Orange-flavoured Pekoe, challenging competition at the head of Flowery Teas; and various cautions to the public against spurious establishments and adulterated articles.

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Winkle adulterated his brandy; and the conversation was becoming general, when it was interrupted by the entrance into the shop of a boy, in a sober gray livery and a gold-laced hat, with a small covered basket under his arm, whom Mr.

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Spenlow being a little drowsy after the champagne - honour to the soil that grew the grape, to the grape that made the wine, to the sun that ripened it, and to the merchant who adulterated it!

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The authority during its raid recovered 8000kg substandard and adulterated spices from the factory in Chamkani.