Adulterate

Definitions: Adulterate

Adulterate

Adjective

1. Mixed with impurities.

Verb

1. Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor".

Date "adulterate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Chemical Industry	To corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or a baser substance. . Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Adulterate

Synonyms: adulterated (adj), debased (adj), debase (v), dilute (v), stretch (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Deterioration	Deteriorate; weaken; put back, set back; taint, infect, contaminate, poison, empoison, envenom, canker, corrupt, exulcerate, pollute, vitiate, inquinate; debase, embase; denaturalize, denature, leaven; deflower, debauch, defile, deprave, degrade; ulcerate; stain; (dirt); discolor; alloy, adulterate, sophisticate, tamper with, prejudice.
Mixture	Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Adulterate

English words defined with "adulterate": Cassia bark, chicory, chicory root ♦ Hocus ♦ Pachonta ♦ Scorpion senna, Shude, spurious wing ♦ terra alba. (references)

Specialty definitions using "adulterate": PSEUDOLMEDIA SPURIA ♦ STUM. (references)

"Adulterate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Adulterate" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	66.67%	4	175,879
Lexical Verb (base form)	16.67%	1	339,140
Adjective (general or positive)	16.67%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	6	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "adulterate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përziej (admix, alloy, attemper, beat, blend, commingle, compound, confound, conglomerate, dash, drag in, embark, emulsify, implicate, intermingle, intermix, jumble, knead, malaxate, mingle, mix, shuffle, stir), i shtoj diçka pa vlerë, i falsifikuar (counterfeit, fabricated, faked, pseudo, shoddy), falsifikoj (counterfeit, fabricate, fake, falsify, forge, wangle). (various references)

Arabic		‏غش (adulteration, bilk, cheat, cheating, copy, debase, deceit, deceive, deception, defraudation, diddle, falsify, fudge, jiggery pokery, nobble, rig, sell, short, sting, swindle), ‏زيف (alloy, artificiality, counterfeit, doctor, fabricate, fake, falsify, falsity, forge, imitate, mockery, sham), ‏زائف (artificial, bad, base, bastard, bogus, dummy, fake, false, fictitious, fictive, floating, hypocritical, imitation, imitative, mock, postiche, pretended, pseudo, queer, sham, shoddy, simulate, spurious, unreal). (various references)

Bulgarian		фалшифициран (adulterine, pinchbeck, sham, spurious), фалшифицирам (corrupt, counterfeit, doctor, fake, falsify, garble, gerrymander, manipulate, tamper), непълноценен, блуден (adulterous, errant, erring), примесен (inwrought, mingled, shot), подправям (cook, debase, doctor, dose, dress, fabricate, falsify, fiddle, fix up, flavour, forge, gaff, imitate, load, raise, salt, season, sophisticate, spice, wangle), подправен (adulterine, corrupt, counterfeit, feigned, forged, fraudulent, imitation, impure, pinchbeck, queer, seasoned, sham, spiced, spicy, supposititious), извънбрачен (adulterine, adulterous, extramarital, illegitimate, misbegotten, natural). (various references)

Chinese		搀杂 (Adulterating). (various references)

Czech		znehodnocovat, zneèistit (contaminate, defile, foul, foul up, pollute, sully), panèovat (doctor, water), falšovat (doctor, fabricate, fake, falsify, forge, tamper). (various references)

Dutch		verwateren, vervalsen (adulteration, falsify), versnýden, verdunnen (attenuate, dilute, disperse, rarefy, thin). (various references)

Farsi		چیزتقلبی ساختن(مثل ریختن اب درشیر), قلابی (Bogus, False, Pasteboard, Quack, Sham), حرامزاده (Bastard, Illegitimate, Spurious, Unfathered, Whoreson), زنازاده , جازن . (various references)

Finnish		väärentää (counterfeit, falsify, forge). (various references)

French		adultérer, frelater, frelaté (adulterated), falsifier, falsifié (adulterated), diluer, dénaturer, étendre. (various references)

Frisian		ferfalskje (falsify). (various references)

German		verfälschen (bastardize, distort, falsify, misrepresent, put out, sophisticate, tamper with, to bastardize, to sophisticate, weight). (various references)

Greek		νοθεύω (falsify, sophisticate, to doctor). (various references)

Hebrew		למ�"ול (dilute, mix, temper), לפ�'ל (denature, foul, pollute, spoil). (various references)

Hungarian		hamisított (adulterous, base, counterfeit, faked, false, falsified, forged, loaded, phoney, snide, sophisticated), hamisít (cook, counterfeit, debase, fake, falsify, forge, to adulterate, to cog, to cook, to debase, to deprave, to doctor, to fake, to falsify, to forge), házasságtörést követ el (commit adultery). (various references)

Indonesian		zinah (adultery, fornication, unchastity), zina (adultery, fornication, unchastity), memalsukan (counterfeit, debase), berzina (adulterous). (various references)

Italian		adulterato (sophisticated), adulterare (debase, doctor), manipolare (falsify, handle, manipulate, rig, to cook up), falsificato (adulterated, false), contraffare (counterfeit, fake, falsify, fiddle, forge, imitate, lift, pirate, simulate). (various references)

Korean		썩음질을 하십시�". (various references)

Manx		droghvestey (adulteration). (various references)

Norwegian		forfalske (counterfeit, fake, falsify). (various references)

Pig Latin		adulterateay

Portuguese		falsificar (bast, counterfeit, doctor, dope, dosimeter, fake, falsify, forge, fudge, garble, gerrymander, manipulation, pirate, tamper, to doctor, vitiate, wangle). (various references)

Romanian		amesteca (admix, amalgamate, attemper, blend, combine, commingle, compound, concoct, confound, confuse, cross, dilute, embroil, entangle, immix, interblend, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, intersperse, involve, jumble, medley, melt, merge, mingle, mix, muddle, pie, poison, rabble, shuffle, temper, work), altera (alloy, alter, change, corrupt, counterfeit, deprave, distort, forge, spoil, taint), adulter (adulterer, adulterous, adultery, fornication), se preface (be pretending, dissemble, dissimulate, falsify, feign, kid, make believe, make pretence of, pose, pretend, show), falsificat (adulterine, factitious, impure, sophisticated, spurious, strained), falsifica (alter, cook, counterfeit, debase, distort, doctor, Duff, fake, falsify, feign, fiddle, forge, fudge, huckster, mystify, sophisticate), contraface (counterfeit, fake, forge). (various references)

Russian		фальсифицировать (fake, falsify). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaprljati (soil), preljubnički (adulterous, extramarital), pokvariti (blemish, corrupt, damage, deteriorate, gum up, mar, queer, sophisticate, spoil, strip, taint, tamper), krivotvoriti (debase), krivotvoren (forged), falsifikovan (counterfeit). (various references)

Spanish		falsear (distort, falsify, forge, garble, juggle, juggle with, throw out), adulterar (corrupt, dilute, doctor, dose, to doctor). (various references)

Swedish		späda ut (dilute, water down), förfalska (constitution, cook, counterfeit, debase, doctor, fabricate, fake, fake up, falsify, fiddle, forge, load). (various references)

Turkish		yabancı madde karıştırarak, seyreltmek (attenuate, cut, dilute, rarefy, subtilize, thin down, thin of, thin out), bozmak (abash, abolish, affect, alloy, annihilate, annul, baffle, ball up, barbarize, bedevil, blemish, botch, break, break down, break off, break on, bugger, bugger up, bust, cash, change, circumvent, confound, confuse, contaminate, corrupt, cross, damage, debase, debauch, decay, declare off, deface, defile, destroy, deteriorate, disappoint, disarray, discolor, discolour, discomfit, discomfort, discompose, discountenance, dislocate, dismount, disorder, disrupt, dissolve, distort, disturb, downgrade, emasculate, embarrass, embroil, exchange, explode, fluff, foil, foul, foul up, fumble, garble, goof, goof up, gum up, Harry, impair, indispose, infect, infringe, lead astray, leaven, mangle, Mar, mess, murder, muss, mutilate, obliterate, pervert, pollute, put out, put out of action, put to shame, quash, queer, rattle, reverse, rot, ruffle, ruin, scotch, scupper, shatter, sour, spoil, stymie, taint, thwart, tousle, tumble, undo, unmake, upset, violate, vitiate, whittle away, whittle down, whittle off, wreck). (various references)

Ukranian		чинити перелюбство, фальсифікувати (counterfeit, doctor, falsify), фальсифікований (adulterated, counterfeit, falsified, sophisticate, sophisticated, supposititious), винуватий у перелюбстві, незаконнонароджений (adulterine, base-born, bastard, illegitimate), підробляти (counterfeit, fake, falsify, feign, forge, imitate, mimic, tamper), підроблений (adulterated, bastard, bogus, brummagem, counterfeit, dummy, falsified, imitative, mock, sham, simulated, snide, spurious, staged, supposititious), підмішувати (alloy, put, weight), погіршувати (aggravate, degrade, deprave, deteriorate, disimprove, impair, worsen, worst), позашлюбний (adulterine, bastard, extramarital, misbegotten, nameless, natural, spurious). (various references)

Vietnamese		thông dâm (adulterous). (various references)

Welsh		llygru (corrupt). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "adulterate": adulterated, adulterates. (additional references)
	Words containing "adulterate": unadulterated, unadulteratedly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Adulterate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adalberti, adulterare, adultrate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "adulterate" (pronounced udu"lterā't)
4	-t er ā' t	obliterate, reiterate.
3	-er ā' t	accelerate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, commiserate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, eviscerate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incarcerate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, lacerate, liberate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-l-r-t-t-u"
	-1 letter: laureated.
	-2 letters: laureate.
	-3 letters: adulate, aerated, alerted, altered, aurated, aureate, dealate, laterad, radulae, rattled, related, treadle, treated, tuatera, turtled, tutelar, uttered.
	-4 letters: aerate, alated, aulder, aurate, dartle, datura, dealer, delate, derate, dueler, elated, elater, eluate, eluder, eluted, latter, lauder, laurae, leader, letted, letter, radula, ratted, rattle, redate, relate, retted, rutted, tarted, tauted, tauter, teared, teated, teledu, tetrad, turtle.
	-5 letters: adult, alate, alder, alert, altar, alter, areae, areal, arete, artal, artel, attar, aurae, aural, dater, dealt, delta, derat, deter, dural, eared, eater, elate, elder, elude, elute, etude, lader, laree, lated, later, latte, laura, lured, lutea, luted, ratal, rated, ratel, reata, relet, ruled, talar, taler, tared, tatar, tater, telae, tetra, trade, tread, treat, treed, trued, tutee, ultra, urate, ureal, utter.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-l-r-t-t-u"
	+1 letter: adulterated, adulterates, ultraheated.
	+3 letters: rearticulated, recapitulated, unadulterated.
	+5 letters: overarticulated, unadulteratedly.
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