Another word for adulterate
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- To try to heal; apply medicine to
- (--- Baseball) To deface or apply a substance to (the ball) in violation of the rules in order to throw a pitch with extraordinary movement:
- To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of:
- To dissolve or break up the fat globules of
- To form by penetrating, probing, or digging:
- To lessen the strength of; dilute:
- To make false by altering or adding to:
- To tell falsehoods; lie
- To declare or prove to be false.
- To reduce to fundamental parts.
- To reduce in complexity or extent.
- To become simpler.
- To become liquid; melt:
- To reduce (solid matter) to liquid form; melt.
- To cause to pass into solution:
- (Intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.
- To diminish or impair in quality, character, or value:
- To grow worse; degenerate:
- (Chem.) To convert (an organic compound) into a simpler compound by removal of one or more parts of the molecule; decompose
- (Intransitive) To reduce in quality or purity.
- To cause (an organic compound) to undergo degradation.
- (Physics) To add nonfissionable matter to (fissionable material) so as to prevent use in an atomic weapon.
- To render unfit to eat or drink without destroying usefulness in other applications, especially to add methanol to ethyl alcohol.
- (Biochemistry) To cause the tertiary structure of (a protein) to unfold, as with heat, alkali, or acid, so that some of its original properties, especially its biological activity, are diminished or eliminated.
- To march in single file or in files or columns.
- To profane or sully
- To profane or sully (a reputation, for example).
- To make worse, less, weaker, etc.; reduce an ability or function
- To cause to weaken, be damaged, or diminish, as in quality:
- To make (water, etc.) turbid
- To mix or stir (a drink, etc.)
- To mix (a drink or the ingredients of a drink), especially with a muddler.
- To weaken morally; debase; pervert
- To make ineffective (a contract or legal stipulation, for example); invalidate.
- To reduce the value or quality of; impair or spoil:
- To lessen or, sometimes, annul the value, importance, etc. of
- To subject (a monetary unit or a currency) to devaluation
- To lower or remove the value of something.
- To lower in public estimation; debase or degrade:
- To depreciate, belittle, or bring into contempt
- To become cheap or cheaper
- To reduce in value or price
- To write off an expenditure for (a tangible asset) by prorating over a certain period, usually the estimated useful life of the asset.
- To lessen the price or value of:
- To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
- To make impure, infected, corrupt, radioactive, etc. by contact with something or by the addition of something; pollute; defile; sully; taint
- (Linguistics) To influence the semantic properties or phonological form of (a word or phrase); blend with:
- (--- Computers) To damage (data) in a file or on a disk.
- To cause to become rotten; spoil:
- To alter from original or proper form:
- To render impure or morally harmful; corrupt:
- To make less suitable for an activity, especially by the introduction of unwanted factors:
- To contaminate (water, air, etc.) with harmful chemicals, waste material, etc.
- To affect with putrefaction or decay; spoil
- To become tainted
- To expose to an infectious agent, toxin, or undesirable substance:
- To be unobtrusive or harmonious by resembling the surroundings or behaving like others in a group. Often used with in:
- To combine (varieties or grades of the same substance) to obtain a mixture of a particular character, quality, or consistency:
- To create a harmonious effect or result:
- To flavor or scent (a liquid) by steeping ingredients in it:
- To introduce a solution into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes.
- To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles.
- To devise, using skill and intelligence; contrive:
- To prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking.
- To prepare something by mixing various ingredients, especially to prepare food for cooking
- (Arith.) To change in denomination or form without changing in value
- To remove oxygen from (a compound).
- To thicken or intensify the flavor of (a sauce, for example) by slow boiling.
- To cause to become diseased by bringing into contact with such an organism or matter
- (Computers) To become transmitted to and copied on (a hard drive, for example). Used of a virus or other harmful software.
- To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent:
- To pass, or cause (a fluid, cell, etc.) to pass, through small gaps or openings; filter
- To pass, or cause (individual troops) to pass, through weak places in the enemy's lines in order to attack the enemy's flanks or rear
- To cause a liquid or gas to permeate a substance by passing through its interstices or pores.
- To give a sheen to the surface of (fabric or metal).
- To take on a supply of water, as a ship.
- To dilute by adding water to
- To become diluted
- To make thinner or less concentrated by adding a liquid such as water.
- To thin down or weaken as by mixing with water or other liquid
- To become combined; unite.
- To unite or blend with another metal. Used of mercury.
- To mix or alloy (a metal) with mercury.
- To make (a metal) less pure by mixing with a less valuable metal
- To mix (metals) to form an alloy
- To debase by the addition of an inferior element.
- To mix or become mixed together.
- To make or become weak or weaker
- (Intransitive) To become weaker.
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Another word for adulterate
Verb
To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances
- To add extra or excessive costs, profits, etc. to
- To supply in large quantities; give much of something to
- To insert (a necessary material) into a device:
- (Informal) To give medical treatment to:
- To try to heal; apply medicine to
- To add ingredients so as to improve or conceal the taste, appearance, or quality of:
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