Adulterate
verb
To make something, especially food or drink, impure by adding something harmful or of a lower quality.
The farmer was accused of adulterating his organic products with regular produce.
Often appears as...
- adulterate food
- adulterate drink
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Disapproving
verb
To make something, especially food or drink, impure by adding something harmful or of a lower quality.
The farmer was accused of adulterating his organic products with regular produce.
Often appears as...
- adulterate food
- adulterate drink
Usage tips
Disapproving
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Adulterate implies wrongdoing or unethical behavior, especially in commercial practices.
The company faced legal action for adulterating their juices with cheaper ingredients.
Pro Tip 2/3Harmful Substances
The additives in adulteration are harmful or of lower quality, making the original product less pure.
He never buys cheap spices, fearing they may be adulterated with hazardous materials.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Adulteration may not be immediately obvious by appearance; laboratory tests are often needed.
Though the milk looked fresh, it was adulterated with water and powdered milk.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Adulterate implies wrongdoing or unethical behavior, especially in commercial practices.
The company faced legal action for adulterating their juices with cheaper ingredients.
Pro Tip 2/3Harmful Substances
The additives in adulteration are harmful or of lower quality, making the original product less pure.
He never buys cheap spices, fearing they may be adulterated with hazardous materials.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Adulteration may not be immediately obvious by appearance; laboratory tests are often needed.
Though the milk looked fresh, it was adulterated with water and powdered milk.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
Adulterate implies wrongdoing or unethical behavior, especially in commercial practices.
The company faced legal action for adulterating their juices with cheaper ingredients.
Pro Tip 2/3Harmful Substances
The additives in adulteration are harmful or of lower quality, making the original product less pure.
He never buys cheap spices, fearing they may be adulterated with hazardous materials.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Visible
Adulteration may not be immediately obvious by appearance; laboratory tests are often needed.
Though the milk looked fresh, it was adulterated with water and powdered milk.
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
and that's the importance of interaction. And in order to explain interaction, we need to really bring people in and make them realize how interaction is part of their lives. So when I talk about it, I don't talk only about video games, which are in a way the purest form of interaction, unadulterated by any kind of function or finality.
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exclusive deeper dive into cosmos cosmos does not aspire to adulterate the science to make it easier to understand or to dumb it down the science here is solid and it's presented in a way that hopefully will challenge the audience we
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
i didn't think we were going to see it honestly i can't believe it i'm feeling good it's like a mixture between utter unadulterated happiness and like
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Paola Antonelli: Why I...
and that's the importance of interaction. And in order to explain interaction, we need to really bring people in and make them realize how interaction is part of their lives. So when I talk about it, I don't talk only about video games, which are in a way the purest form of interaction, unadulterated by any kind of function or finality.
Video examples
Behind The Scenes -...
exclusive deeper dive into cosmos cosmos does not aspire to adulterate the science to make it easier to understand or to dumb it down the science here is solid and it's presented in a way that hopefully will challenge the audience we
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Snow Leopards: Ghosts in...
i didn't think we were going to see it honestly i can't believe it i'm feeling good it's like a mixture between utter unadulterated happiness and like
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.
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William Boyd
British Novelist
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
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Juliana Hatfield
American Musician
I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.
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Hugh Sidey
American Journalist
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
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Brad Garrett
American Actor
Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
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Ellie Kemper
American Actress
I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
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Will Arnett
Canadian Actor
Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
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Alice Waters
American Chef
I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
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Gordon B. Hinckley
American Clergyman
I do not concern myself much with reading long commentary volumes designed to enlarge at length upon that which is found in the scriptures. Rather, I prefer to dwell with the source, tasting of the unadulterated waters of the fountain of truth - the word of God as he gave it and as it has been recorded in the books we accept as scripture.
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William Boyd
British Novelist
As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
American Judge
All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.
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Juliana Hatfield
American Musician
I could make a whole album with no one else involved at all. It would be a total, unadulterated expression of myself. Because whenever you have others playing on a project, their influence becomes a part of it.
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Hugh Sidey
American Journalist
Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.
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Brad Garrett
American Actor
Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
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Ellie Kemper
American Actress
I have given myself dork shivers so many times that I would be an outright liar if I characterized myself as anything other than a pure, utter, and unadulterated dork.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.
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Will Arnett
Canadian Actor
Pure unadulterated success is not as funny as failure.
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Alice Waters
American Chef
I'm unwilling to eat food that has been adulterated.
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