Adulterate: alternatives and connections

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

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Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterat…

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Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterat…

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Changed from a sound to a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.

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To plunder; to strip by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession.

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A teacher; one skilled in a profession, or branch of knowledge learned man.

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To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine.

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The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

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The act of debasing or the state of being debased.

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of Adulterate

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To reduce from a higher to a lower state or grade of worth, dignity, purity, station, etc.; to degrade; to lower; to deteriorate; to abase; as, to de…

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of Debase

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To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing.

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A burden; that which is laid on or put in anything for conveyance; that which is borne or sustained; a weight; as, a heavy load.

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To reach out; to extend; to put forth.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.