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11 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
verb corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones
adjective mixed with impurities
originThe adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- adulterate 11
- laureated 10
- adulated 10
- dealated 10
- deratted 10
- treadled 10
- dartled 9
- delated 9
- deluder 9
- derated 9
- detrude 9
- dratted 9