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Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Corrupted or made impure by being mixed with something else; adulterated.
- Tending to commit adultery; relating to or being the product of adultery; adulterous.
Verbi
- (transitive) To corrupt, to debase (someone or something).
- (transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
- (transitive, archaic) To commit adultery with (someone).
- (transitive, archaic) To defile (someone) by adultery.
- (intransitive, also, figuratively, archaic) To commit adultery.
Esimerkit
- Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
- With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts-
- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
- So to seduce!- won to his shameful lust
- The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
- to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coins, etc.
- The present war has [...] adulterated our tongue with strange words.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | adulterated | Imperfekti | adulterated |
| Partisiipin preesens | adulterating | Komparatiivi | more adulterate |
| Superlatiivi | most adulterate | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | adulterates |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | adulterateth (vanhahtava) |
(transitive) To make less valuable or spoil (something) by adding impurities or other substances.
"How the microscope reveals adulteration", microscope slide comparing rice starch (left) and arrowroot (right) and a mixture of the two (center), c. 1909