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Adulterant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A substance that adulterates.

adj. Serving to adulterate.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. That which adulterates; or reduces the purity of.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. That which is used to adulterate anything.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Adulterating; used in adulterating.

n. A substance used for adulterating.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials

n. any substance that lessens the purity or effectiveness of a substance

Word Usage

"The E. coli O157:H7 strain was classified by USDA in 1994 as an "adulterant" - meaning more testing and swifter recalls if it is found - after an outbreak of that strain the year before at Jack in the Box fast-food restaurants killed four children."

Equivalent

extraneous foreign

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

substance