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adulterating
Overview of verb adulterate
The verb adulterate has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase -- (corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor")
Overview of adj adulterating
The adj adulterating has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. adulterating, adulterant -- (making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials")
Antonyms of verb adulterate
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adulterate
1 sense of adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
=> corrupt, spoil
=> modify
=> change
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb adulterate
1 sense of adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
=> water down
=> sophisticate, doctor, doctor up
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb adulterate
1 sense of adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
=> corrupt, spoil
'Cause To' of verb adulterate
Derived Forms of verb adulterate
1 sense of adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
RELATED TO>(adj) adulterant#1
=> adulterating, adulterant
RELATED TO>(noun) adulterant#1
=> adulterant, adulterator
RELATED TO>(noun) adulterator#1
=> adulterant, adulterator
RELATED TO>(noun) adulterator#2
=> adulterator
Domain of verb adulterate
Domain Terms of verb adulterate
Familiarity of verb adulterate
adulterate used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb adulterate
1 sense of adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Something ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb adulterate
1 sense of adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
> corrupt, spoil
=> adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb adulterate
Sense 1
adulterate, stretch, dilute, debase
=> corrupt, spoil
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Grep of verb adulterate
adulterate
Antonyms of adj adulterating
1 sense of adulterating
Sense 1
adulterating (vs. purifying), adulterant
purifying (vs. adulterating)
=> ablutionary, cleansing
=> antiseptic
=> detergent, detersive
Similarity of adj adulterating
1 sense of adulterating
Sense 1
adulterating (vs. purifying), adulterant
=> extraneous, foreign
Pertainyms of adj adulterating
Attributes of adj adulterating
Domain of adj adulterating
Domain Terms of adj adulterating
Familiarity of adj adulterating
adulterating used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj adulterating
adulterating
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