Usually means: Adding impurities to reduce purity.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word adulterating:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulterating: Merriam-Webster
  2. adulterating: Collins English Dictionary
  3. adulterating: Vocabulary.com
  4. adulterating: Wordnik
  5. adulterating: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. adulterating: Wiktionary
  7. Adulterating, adulterating: Dictionary.com
  8. adulterating: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Adulterating: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. adulterating: Rhymezone
  11. Adulterating: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. adulterating: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. adulterating: FreeDictionary.org
  14. adulterating: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. adulterating: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulterating: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. adulterating: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. adulterating: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See adulterate as well.)

Definitions from WordNet (adulterating)

adjective:  making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials ("The adulterating effect of extraneous materials")


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