adulterating
present participle ofadulterate
adulterate
verb[Tusually passive]
uk/əˈdʌl.tə.reɪt/us/əˈdʌl.tə.reɪt/to makefoodordrinkweakeror toloweritsquality, byaddingsomethingelse:
There werecomplaintsthat thebeerhad been adulteratedwithwater.
Damaging and spoiling
- adulterate
- adulterated
- adulteration
- at the expense ofsomeoneidiom
- at-risk
- butcher
- erode
- flaw
- foul
- foul(something)up
- gild the lilyidiom
- gloss
- gnaw
- rampage
- ravage
- ravages
- ruin
- scourge
- sour
- wreck
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Becoming and making less strong
Examplesofadulterating
adulterating
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
However, counterfeiting of coin is done to reap a profit, and the only way in which it can generate profit is byadulteratingthe coin with copper or lead.
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These led to generic transgression (adulteratinga predominantly naturalistic play with musical comedy and music-hall techniques) and spatial transgression (breaking through the 'fourth wall' between actors and audience).
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At that selfsame court a few months later, before the same set of magistrates, a farmer was charged withadulteratingmilk and was fined £2.
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A prerequisite for this, however, is that it must ceaseadulteratingthem with other short-sighted and selfish criteria.
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However, if they containadulteratingsubstances these must be identified.
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I have no evidence of the use ofadulteratingmaterial in any of these products.
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If a farmer gets money dishonestly byadulteratingmilk, you do not blame all farmers.
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They are just as capable—some would say more so—ofadulteratingfood in the process of cooking and serving as is anyone involved with an earlier link on the chain.
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However, it was not very effective because of corruption and practices ofadulteratingthe wheat.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Soon, however, it was discovered that the merchants wereadulteratingthe grain rations to fully half their weight with sand or powdered bones.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Mega purple has raised some controversy within the wine consuming community as its use is considered to be akin toadulteratinga wine.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He also attacked apothecaries, who had a reputation foradulteratingand badly preparing medications.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Bakers who were caught tampering with weights oradulteratingdough with less expensive ingredients could receive severe penalties.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This may have been due to the common practice ofadulteratingkerosene with cheaper but more volatile hydrocarbon mixtures, such as naphtha.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They not even shrank fromadulteratingtheir own history to achieve their aims which were not always the same as the bishops.
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