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verb

adulterate

CEFR C2

to make impure by adding inferior or foreign substances

In a sentence

Six example sentences with adulterate, each labelled with its topic.

  • Dishonest sellers adulterate olive oil with cheap soybean blends, and only a laboratory test reveals what is in the bottle.

    Cooking

  • Medieval bakers who adulterated their flour with chalk or sawdust faced the pillory once the guild inspectors caught them.

    History

  • A single drop of glycerol will adulterate the sample enough to shift every reading on the spectrometer.

    Science

  • A supplier that adulterates its honey with corn syrup risks losing every retail contract once a lab test comes back.

    Business

  • The 1906 statute made it a federal offense to adulterate food shipped across state lines, and inspectors began seizing barrels.

    Law

  • Rulers short of silver would adulterate the coinage with copper, and prices rose as merchants learned to weigh every coin.

    Economics

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