Petty dealing or trafficking; tricky or unfair dealing; mixing of liquors, adulteration.
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| 释义 | the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > adulteration (23) cauponation1531 Petty dealing or trafficking; tricky or unfair dealing; mixing of liquors, adulteration. sophistication1541 Adulteration (of commodities, etc.). adulterating1581 The action or an act of corrupting or debasing something by admixture; the result of this; = adulteration, n. bastarding1583 An act of corrupting or adulterating something. Cf. bastardization, n. 1. rare. bastardizing1598 The action of adulterating, corrupting, or debasing something; (also) the result of such an action. sophisticating1611 adultery1616 Debasement, corruption; = adulteration, n. 1; (also) an instance of this. Obsolete. rare. adulteration1626 The action or an act of adulterating, corrupting, contaminating, or debasing; (now esp.) the practice or process of making something poorer in… adulterism1639 The process of adulterating, adulteration; (also) the result of this. bastardization1650 The action of adulterating, corrupting, or debasing something; (also) the process or result of such an action, esp. in the context of a language… compassing1669 Adulteration (of wine). Obsolete. contagion1695 transferred. Taint; tainting or adulterating contact; impure admixture. Obsolete. doctoring1805 The action of falsifying, adulterating, or tampering with something. Cf. doctor, v. 2 4. Subcategories:— one who adulterates (2) — that which (2) — quality of being adulterated (3) — result of adulterating (3) |
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