adulterate
IPA: ʌdˈʌɫtɝeɪt
verb
- (transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
- (transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
- (transitive, archaic) To commit adultery with (someone).
- (transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.
- (intransitive, also figuratively, archaic) To commit adultery.
adjective
- Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
- Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
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Examples of "adulterate" in Sentences
- I don't really understand why we in America have to adulterate all our food.
- I simply like pie crust too much to adulterate it by letting cheddar cheese melt all over the top.
- For the freedom to vote, electoral documents adulterate or use fraudulent means to circumvent the popular will;
- "adulterate" stages where "noise prevails," and "not a tongue of th 'untun'd kennel can a line repeat of serious sense."
- The 90% of temperature stations which are unreliable are used to adulterate by cross reference the very small number of reliable temperature stations.
- Meanwhile anti-foreign sentiments grew in the Tang court culminating in a decree in 845 ordering monks of the ‘Religion of Light’ to return to lay life ‘so that they will not adulterate the customs of China.’
- The word 'adulterate' means 'to make impure, spurious or inferior by adding extraneous or improper ingredients' and I guess this applies to learning new values and ideas as filling our heads with extraneous or improper ingredients as well.
- He will chatter about things refined and spiritual and godlike like himself, and he and the men who herd with him will calmly adulterate the commodities they put upon the market and which annually kill tens of thousands of babies and young children.
- As for whether or not homosexuals want special rights –they have all the same civil rights straights have –the right to sin, fornicate, adulterate and commit buggery in privacy with consenting adults behind their doors and even the right to commit and be faithful to a homosexual partner –but they also have the right to be straight and moral and marry one of the opposite sex and be faithful to that spouse.
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