0%

All adulterate synonyms

a·dul·ter·ate
A a

verb adulterate

  • contaminate — If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
  • shave — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
  • defile — To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
  • dilute — to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
  • mingle — to become mixed, blended, or united.
  • lace — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
  • pollute — to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
  • amalgamate — When two or more things, especially organizations, amalgamate or are amalgamated, they become one large thing.
  • corrupt — Someone who is corrupt behaves in a way that is morally wrong, especially by doing dishonest or illegal things in return for money or power.
  • transfuse — to transfer or pass from one to another; transmit; instill: to transfuse a love of literature to one's students.
  • weaken — to make weak or weaker.
  • cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
  • doctor — a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
  • irrigate — to supply (land) with water by artificial means, as by diverting streams, flooding, or spraying.
  • commingle — to mix or be mixed; blend
  • mix — to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
  • intermix — Mix together.
  • vitiate — to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.
  • spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
  • falsify — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • depreciate — If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
  • deteriorate — If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • cheapen — If something cheapens a person or thing, it lowers their reputation or position.
  • degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
  • cook — When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
  • infiltrate — to filter into or through; permeate.
  • impair — to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
  • attenuate — To attenuate something means to reduce it or weaken it.
  • taint — the area between the testicles or vulva and the anus; the perineum.
  • devalue — To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
  • thin — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
  • alloy — An alloy is a metal that is made by mixing two or more types of metal together.
  • blend — If you blend substances together or if they blend, you mix them together so that they become one substance.
  • dissolve — to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
  • denature — to change the nature of
  • water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
  • spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
  • infect — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
  • ruinruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?