adulterate
verb (used with object)
to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements; use cheaper, inferior, or less desirable goods in the production of (any professedly genuine article).
adulterates
-
present tense formof adulterate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Louis Klopsch
