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adulterates

  • present tense form of adulterate (3rd person singular).

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But no matter how any culture adulterates this, chicken soup remains a familiar, familial elixir that hearkens back to when your mom simmered a pot for you on a cold, damp day.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 16, 2023

L invades her home, adulterates it with his grimace, and then turns his canvas in another direction.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2021

Schamus cuts or adulterates everything in the novel that’s an audacity of form or a leap of vision.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2016

This triangulating trend developed overseas: For the European market, Coca-Cola adulterates its Fanta with acesulfame-K and aspartame, and slips stevia into its cans of Sprite.

From Slate • May 13, 2013

Gold adulterates one thing only,—the human heart.—Marguerite de Valois.

From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis