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ADULTERATING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does adulterating mean?
• ADULTERATING (adjective)
The adjective ADULTERATING has 1 sense:
1. making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
Familiarity information: ADULTERATING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials
Synonyms:
adulterant; adulterating
Context example:
the adulterating effect of extraneous materials
Similar:
extraneous; foreign (not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source)
Antonym:
purifying (freeing from noxious matter)
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