cook β When you cook a meal, you prepare food for eating by heating it.
corrupt β 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.
cut β 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.
defile β To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
degrade β Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
depreciate β If something such as a currency depreciates or if something depreciates it, it loses some of its original value.
deteriorate β If something deteriorates, it becomes worse in some way.
devalue β To devalue something means to cause it to be thought less impressive or less deserving of respect.
dilute β to make (a liquid) thinner or weaker by the addition of water or the like.
dissolve β to make a solution of, as by mixing with a liquid; pass into solution: to dissolve salt in water.
doctor β a person licensed to practice medicine, as a physician, surgeon, dentist, or veterinarian.
falsify β to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
impair β to make or cause to become worse; diminish in ability, value, excellence, etc.; weaken or damage: to impair one's health; to impair negotiations.
infiltrate β to filter into or through; permeate.
mix β to combine (substances, elements, things, etc.) into one mass, collection, or assemblage, generally with a thorough blending of the constituents.
plant β 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.
pollute β to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
shave β to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
water down β a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32Β°F or 0Β°C and boiling at 212Β°F or 100Β°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.
adulterate β If something such as food or drink is adulterated, someone has made its quality worse by adding water or cheaper products to it.
debase β To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
diminish β to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
alter β If something alters or if you alter it, it changes.
convert β If you convert a vehicle or piece of equipment, you change it so that it can use a different fuel.
mold β loose, friable earth, especially when rich in organic matter and favorable to the growth of plants.
