adulterated

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adulterated

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The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.

adjective

not comparable Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug). Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated; see also Thesaurus:contaminated
Similar: laced, tainted, contaminated, adulterated, common, corrupted, mixed, polluted, sophisticated

verb

participle, past simple past and past participle of adulterate

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Español	adulterado
Deutsch	gepanscht

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@misc{adulterated_2026,
  title = {adulterated},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adulterated},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}