Adulteration

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adulteration \A*dul`ter*a"tion\, n. [L. adulteratio.]
     1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp.
        of food or drink) by foreign mixture.
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              The shameless adulteration of the coin. --Prescott.


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     2. An adulterated state or product.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  adulteration
       n 1: being mixed with extraneous material; the product of
            adultering [syn: {debasement}]
       2: the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution
          of one substance for another)