adulterated
adjective
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adj
Etymology: The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
- Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
“Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated; see also Thesaurus:contaminated”
“The problem of adulterated milk has periodically reemerged as a public health menace, from New York in the 1850s to China in 2008.”
verb
Etymology: The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
- simple past and past participle of adulterate