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).
adulterating
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present participleof adulterate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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"It's totally adulterating the competition," Courtois told a news conference.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2025
So for example, not adulterating: I didn't write with any actors in mind.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2024
The buying spree followed the melamine crisis when Chinese producers had been adulterating milk, baby formula and other foods with melamine, a chemical that is toxic in large quantities, to increase their apparent protein content.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020
For example, a decade after Chinese milk producers were revealed to be adulterating infant formula, Chinese parents still shun the country’s dairy industry and distrust of food producers remains almost universal.
From The Verge ● Jul. 10, 2019
If other poets of our time show more intellectual strength than he, are they, perchance, given sometimes to adulterating their poetry with ratiocination and didactic preachments such as were better left to the proseman?
From Old Familiar Faces by Theodore Watts-Dunton
