Adulterate

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To defile by adultery. [Obs.] Milton.

2. To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

Synonyms: corrupt; defile; debase; contaminate; vitiate; sophisticate.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To commit adultery. [Obs.]

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

1. Tainted with adultery.

2. Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ly, adv. -- A*dul"ter*ate*ness, n.