0 present participle of adulterate
1 to make food or drink weaker or to lower its quality, by adding something else:
There were complaints that the beer had been adulterated with water.
However, counterfeiting of coin is done to reap a profit, and the only way in which it can generate profit is by adulterating the coin with copper or lead.
These led to generic transgression (adulterating a predominantly naturalistic play with musical comedy and music-hall techniques) and spatial transgression (breaking through the 'fourth wall' between actors and audience).
At that selfsame court a few months later, before the same set of magistrates, a farmer was charged with adulterating milk and was fined £2.
A prerequisite for this, however, is that it must cease adulterating them with other short-sighted and selfish criteria.
However, if they contain adulterating substances these must be identified.
I have no evidence of the use of adulterating material in any of these products.
If a farmer gets money dishonestly by adulterating milk, you do not blame all farmers.
They are just as capable—some would say more so—of adulterating food in the process of cooking and serving as is anyone involved with an earlier link on the chain.
