adulterates
Dilutes with impurities
Adulterates is the verb form of adulterate, meaning to make something impure by adding inferior or contaminating substances.
The word typically applies to food, drugs, or other products degraded for profit: The supplier adulterates the olive oil with cheaper vegetable oils.
By extension, anything diluted or corrupted from its original state has been adulterated.
taints
Makes slightly impure
- contaminatesMakes unclean or impure
- pollutesIntroduces harmful substances
- defilesContaminates or desecrates
debases · vitiates · spoils · falsifies · perverts · distorts · compromises · impairs · degrades · dilutes
adulteratespurifies
Removes unwanted substances
refines · cleanses · cleans · concentrates · distills
adulteratespreserves
Cooked fruit in sugar
authenticates · restores · maintains · protects · safeguards
- adulterated goodsProducts compromised by additives
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