adulterating

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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.

adulterating - making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials"

adulterant

purifying - freeing from noxious matter; "filtration is a purifying agent"

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From the selling of quack medicines he had proceeded to the adulterating of foreign wines, varied by lucrative evening occupation in the Paris gambling houses.

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They all three speak a wonderful mixture of German and English, adulterating the purity of their native tongue by putting in English words in the middle of a German sentence.

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He said that the suspects were involved in adulterating Agro-chemicals such as herbicides and pesticides in large quantity.