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adulterate

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10 lettersPronunciation /əˈdʌltəɹət/Part of speech verb, adjectiveSorted aadeelrttuStarts with AEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. To make something impure by adding inferior or unwanted material.

Word origin

From Latin adulterātus (“adulterate, adulterated, defiled, polluted, counterfeited”), perfect passive participle of adulterō (“to adulterate, defile, commit adultery (with), counterfeit”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from ad- (“to, in the direction of”) + alter (“other”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix), literally “to go after someone else”. Equivalent to adultery + -ate.

Used in a sentence

  • Theſe, and other like places in abundance through all thoſe ſhort Epiſtles, muſt either be adulterat, or elſe Ignatius [of Antioch] was not Ignatius, nor a Martyr, but moſt adulterate, and corrupt himſelf.
  • I am poſſeſt with an adulterate blot, / My bloud is mingled with the crime of luſt: [...]
  • [C]urse the day / When first Spain's queen beheld the black-ey'd boy, / And gore-fac'd Treason sprung from her adulterate joy.

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