adulterate
Example Sentences
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It is one thing to alter the competition, another to adulterate or corrupt it - La Liga accepts the first suggestion, but not the second.
From BBC • Oct. 22, 2025
Now, he can rest easy: There's no economic incentive to adulterate his product.
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2023
Little five-spice seasoning or herbs adulterate this meat.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 14, 2021
You don’t take a food celebrated for one property alone — pickles are sour — and adulterate its central character and declare it brilliant.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021
And they also esteem it in these parts as very fine, because the merchants through whose hands it passes adulterate it still further.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
