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adulterated

adj

Etymology

The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.

Definitions

  1. Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production…

    Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).

    • Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated; see also Thesaurus:contaminated
    • The problem of adulterated milk has periodically reemerged as a public health menace, from New York in the 1850s to China in 2008.
    • Heroin is often adulterated with fentanyl.

  2. simple past and past participle of adulterate

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adulterated. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adulterated. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at adulterated

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA