Synonyms of the word adulterate


ADULTERATEADULTERATED - CORRUPT - DEBASE - DEBASED - DILUTE - IMPURE - SPOIL - STRETCH

adulterate

  • adj. Tending to commit adultery.
  • adj. Corrupted; impure; adulterated.
  • v. To corrupt.
  • v. To spoil by adding impurities.
  • v. To commit adultery.
  • v. To defile by adultery.

adulterated

  • adj. Mixed with impurities.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of adulterate.

corrupt

  • adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
  • adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
  • adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
  • v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
  • v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
  • v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
  • v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

debase

  • v. (transitive) To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To lower in position or rank.
  • v. (transitive) To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins.

debased

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of debase.

dilute

  • v. (transitive) To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution; especially by adding water.
  • v. (transitive) To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance.
  • v. (transitive, stock market) To cause the value of individual shares to decrease by increasing the total…
  • v. (intransitive) To become attenuated, thin, or weak.
  • adj. Having a low concentration.
  • adj. Weak; reduced in strength due to dilution, diluted.

impure

  • adj. Not pure.
  • adj. Defiled by sin or guilt; unholy or unhallowed.
  • adj. Unchaste or obscene.
  • adj. (Judaism) Not virgin, having previously had sexual intercourse.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) to defile; to pollute.

spoil

  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour.
  • v. (transitive, archaic) To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, archaic) To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.).
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To carry off (goods) by force; to steal.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin; to damage (something) in some way making it unfit for use.
  • v. (transitive) To ruin the character of, by overindulgence; to coddle or pamper to excess.
  • v. (intransitive) Of food, to become bad, sour or rancid; to decay.
  • v. (transitive) To render (a ballot paper) invalid by deliberately defacing it.
  • v. (transitive) To reveal the ending of (a story etc.); to ruin (a surprise) by exposing it ahead of time.
  • n. (Also in plural: spoils) Plunder taken from an enemy or victim.
  • n. (uncountable) Material (such as rock or earth) removed in the course of an excavation, or in mining or…

stretch

  • v. (transitive) To lengthen by pulling.
  • v. (intransitive) To lengthen when pulled.
  • v. (transitive) To pull tight.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To get more use than expected from a limited resource.
  • v. (figuratively, transitive) To make inaccurate by exaggeration.
  • v. (intransitive) To extend physically, especially from limit point to limit point.
  • v. (intransitive, transitive) To extend one’s limbs or another part of the body in order to improve the elasticity…
  • v. (intransitive) To extend to a limit point.
  • v. (transitive) To increase.
  • v. (obsolete, colloquial) To stretch the truth; to exaggerate.
  • v. (nautical) To sail by the wind under press of canvas.
  • n. An act of stretching.
  • n. The ability to lengthen when pulled.
  • n. A course of thought which diverts from straightforward logic, or requires extraordinary belief.
  • n. A segment of a journey or route.
  • n. A segment or length of material.
  • n. (baseball) A quick pitching delivery used when runners are on base where the pitcher slides his leg instead…
  • n. (baseball) A long reach in the direction of the ball with a foot remaining on the base by a first baseman…
  • n. A length of time.
  • n. (informal) Term of address for a tall person.
  • n. (Ireland, idiomatic) extended daylight hours, especially said of the evening in springtime when compared…

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