| 单词 | adulterate |
| 释义 | adulterate (once / 2689 pages) vadj If you adulterate something, you mess it up. You may not want to adulterate the beauty of freshly fallen snow by shoveling it, but how else are you going to get to work? The verb adulterate comes from the Latin word adulterare, which means “to falsify,” or “to corrupt.” Whenever something original, pure, fresh, or wholesome is marred, polluted, defaced, or otherwise made inferior, it has been adulterated. Your grandfather may, for instance, believe that bartenders adulterate the name “Martini” by applying it to combinations of vodka, chocolate or anything other than a mixture of five parts gin to one part dry vermouth, on the rocks, with a twist. WORD FAMILYadulterate: adulterated, adulterates, adulterating, adulteration, adulterator+/adulterated: unadulterated/adulteration: adulterations/adulterator: adulterators USAGE EXAMPLESMeanwhile, concerns about poisonous air, adulterated food and an ultracompetitive education system loom large in many people’s lives. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Tyson and Perdue are both cited in Oxfam’s report on the industry’s grim bathroom facilities, though neither company was accused of adulterating its product. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) The FDA in April 2004 declared supplements containing ephedrine alkaloids to be adulterated because they carry an unreasonable risk of illness or injury. Washington Times(Dec 19, 2016) 1v corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones adulterate liquor Syn|Hypo|Hyper debase, dilute, load, stretch extend, stretch increase in quantity or bulk by adding a cheaper substance water down thin by adding water to doctor, doctor up, sophisticatealter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive corrupt, spoil alter from the original 2adj mixed with impurities Syn adulterated, debased impure combined with extraneous elements |
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