adulterated
a. 掺入次级品的
释义与例句
v.
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1.
simple past and past participle of adulterate
adj.
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1.
Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
Near-synonyms: laced, tainted, contaminated; see also Thesaurus:contaminated
The problem of adulterated milk has periodically reemerged as a public health menace, from New York in the 1850s to China in 2008.
Heroin is often adulterated with fentanyl.
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The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
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