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.
They not even shrank from adulterating their own history to achieve their aims which were not always the same as the bishops.
This may have been due to the common practice of adulterating kerosene with cheaper but more volatile hydrocarbon mixtures, such as naphtha.
Bakers who were caught tampering with weights or adulterating dough with less expensive ingredients could receive severe penalties.
He also attacked apothecaries, who had a reputation for adulterating and badly preparing medications.
Mega purple has raised some controversy within the wine consuming community as its use is considered to be akin to adulterating a wine.
Soon, however, it was discovered that the merchants were adulterating the grain rations to fully half their weight with sand or powdered bones.
However, it was not very effective because of corruption and practices of adulterating the wheat.
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.
