adulterating
Definition
- Adjective:
- Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials: Describes the action or process of degrading the purity, quality, or genuineness of a substance by mixing in inferior, improper, or foreign elements.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The adulterating agent was identified as a cheap industrial dye. (The substance that makes things impure was identified as a cheap industrial dye.)
- Adulterating practices in the spice trade are a major concern for food safety. (Practices that corrupt purity in the spice trade are a major concern for food safety.)
- The report highlighted the adulterating effect of adding water to the milk. (The report highlighted the purity-degrading effect of adding water to the milk.)
Advanced Usage
- Used attributively: Often used directly before a noun to describe the nature of an agent or process.
- The factory was fined for using adulterating chemicals in their products.
- Formal/Technical Context: Commonly used in legal, scientific, and quality-control contexts concerning food, drugs, fuels, or other substances.
Variants and Related Words
- Adulterate (verb): To make something impure or poorer in quality by adding another substance.
- It is illegal to adulterate prescription drugs.
- Adulteration (noun): The act of adulterating; the state of being adulterated.
- The adulteration of olive oil with cheaper oils is a common fraud.
- Adulterant (noun): A substance used to adulterate another.
- The lab test detected an unknown adulterant in the sample.
Synonyms
- Contaminating: Making something impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
- Debasing: Reducing the quality or value of something.
- Diluting: Making a substance weaker or thinner by adding another substance (often water).
- Sophisticating (archaic/technical): Adulterating, especially a product.
Antonyms
- Purifying: Removing contaminants from something.
- Refining: Removing impurities or unwanted elements from a substance.
Related Phrases and Concepts
- Adulterated goods/products: Items whose purity has been compromised.
- The shipment of adulterated honey was seized at the port.
- To be found adulterated: A formal description of a product's state.
- The batch of supplements was found adulterated with unlisted ingredients.
Adjective
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making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
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the adulterating effect of extraneous materials
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