Crossword-Solution: ADULTERATE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adulterate | v. t. | To defile by adultery. |
| Adulterate | v. t. | To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food, drink, drugs, coin, etc. |
| Adulterate | v. i. | To commit adultery. |
| Adulterate | a. | Tainted with adultery. |
| Adulterate | a. | Debased by the admixture of a foreign substance; adulterated; spurious. |
We have 63 clues for the answer “ADULTERATE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| to make impure by the addition of a foreign substance | 1 answer |
| Cheapen or water down | 1 answer |
| Debase by admixture. | 1 answer |
| Mixed with impurities | 1 answer |
| Water down, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Water down, perhaps | 2 answers |
| Make impure | 5 answers |
| dope up | 5 answers |
| DEBASE ONESELF | 11 answers |
| Water (down) | 11 answers |
| admix | 15 answers |
| Dilute | 18 answers |
| ravish | 23 answers |
| devitalise | 27 answers |
| bestialise | 27 answers |
| DENATURALISE | 30 answers |
| Misrepresent | 31 answers |
| admixture | 32 answers |
| Pollute | 36 answers |
| misstate | 36 answers |
| Contaminate | 37 answers |
| Befoul | 39 answers |
| deprave | 40 answers |
| denature | 41 answers |
| deflower | 44 answers |
| prostitute | 45 answers |
| demoralize | 46 answers |
| alloy | 49 answers |
| Distort | 49 answers |
| Demoralise | 50 answers |
| Amalgamate | 51 answers |
| Debase | 51 answers |
| spurious | 51 answers |
| Impair | 52 answers |
| Degrade | 52 answers |
| Desecrate | 53 answers |
| Falsify | 55 answers |
| Neutralise | 56 answers |
| debauch | 56 answers |
| make unfit | 57 answers |
| Simulate | 58 answers |
| Neutralize | 58 answers |
| circulate | 59 answers |
| shuffle | 60 answers |
| CARRY ___ | 64 answers |
| Blend | 65 answers |
| Diversify | 66 answers |
| Disable | 67 answers |
| De-file? | 68 answers |
| Pervert | 69 answers |
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ADULTERATE (5)
Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances.
Raillery is the finest part of conversation; but, as it is our usual custom to counterfeit and adulterate whatever is too dear for us, so we have done with this, and turned it all into what is generally called repartee, or being smart; just as when an expensive fashion cometh up, those who are not able to reach it content themselves with some paltry imitation.
The nine of hearts was a caricature of the English Copper and Brass Company, with the following epigram:-- The headlong fool that wants to be a swopper Of gold and silver coin for English copper, May, in Change Alley, prove himself an ass, And give rich metal for adulterate brass.
And then I said, ‘But _why_ adulterate? I don’t like the idea of adulteration.’” “Shabby,” said my uncle, nodding his head.
There are tradesmen who adulterate, contractors who “scamp,” manufacturers who give us shoddy instead of wool, “dressing” instead of cotton, cast-iron tools instead of steel, needles without eyes, razors made only “to sell,” and swindled fabrics in many shapes.
Quotes with ADULTERATE (3)
To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and destroy more surely then lust or gunpowder. The poet's, then, is the highest office of all. His words reach where others fall short. A silly song of Shakespeare's has done more for the poor and the wicked than all the preachers and philanthropists in the world.
The church knows that an educated man is an unbeliever. That is why there is a continual struggle on the part of the clergy to adulterate education with superstition. To maintain their untenable position they must keep the people shackled to a form of mental slavery. Both fear and superstition are forms of a contagious disease. The ignorance of man produced natural fears of the elements of nature. What he could not understand he attributed to malevolent spirits whose primary …
All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1957–2018).