adulterate
adul·ter·ate (ə dul′tər āt′; for adj., -tər it)
transitive verb -·at′ed, -·at′·ing
to make inferior, impure, not genuine, etc. by adding a harmful, less valuable, or prohibited substance
Etymology: < L adulteratus, pp. of adulterare, to falsify < adulter, an adulterer, counterfeiter < ad-, to + alter, other, another
adjective
- guilty of adultery; adulterous
- adulterated; not genuine
adulterate
v.
Antonyms
Object
- chicken: Green Euro-MPs including South-East England MEP Caroline Lucas have demanded an immediate moratorium on watered down and adulterated chicken.
- food: To adulterate food was not just an economic act.
- product: These businessmen didn't adulterate products, putting leaves in tea or chalk in flour.
- milk: For example let's take milk: we would all think it wrong to sell adulterated milk.
- oil: What we should look out for is its quality as many low quality or adulterated olive oils are sold on the market.
- pesticide: GM crops and foods are safer than adulterated, pesticide laced and vermin infested foods that are sold in many parts of Asia.
Preposition: with
- substance: Also there are no standards of ' quality control ' for illegal drugs; they may be adulterated with other substances to increase profits.
- oil: To investigate whether olive oils sold in the UK are being substituted or adulterated with cheaper vegetable oils or lower grades of olive oil.
- additive: Our diet is adulterated with too many additives and preservatives, our water is less than clean, our air is polluted.
- ingredient: In the past, basic foods such as flour, spices and beer were adulterated with cheaper ingredients.
- drug: Much of ecstasy sold is adulterated with other drugs or is false.
Modifying Another Word
- often: Contact dermatitis from olive oil, which is often adulterated, was noted by Greenberg and Lester ( 1954 ).
- not: First, that the oils used are 100 percent natural, not adulterated in any way.
- so: The scheme was so adulterated that the additional financial benefit to British universities to enable them to compete worldwide will be minimal.
- occasionally: Powdered Digitalis leaf is occasionally adulterated; the following leaves have been substituted for the true drug: mullein ( Verbascum thapsus, fam.
- heavily: QUALITY: Street heroin is invariably heavily adulterated, but the extent of this varies wildly from area to area and dealer to dealer.
- n't: These businessmen did n't adulterate products, putting leaves in tea or chalk in flour.
Preposition: in
- way: First, that the oils used are 100 percent natural, not adulterated in any way.
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