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n. The action of adulterating, being mixed with extraneous material, illicit substitution of one substance for another.

n. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture.

n. An adulterated state or product.

n. The act of adulterating, or the state of being adulterated or debased by admixture with something else, generally of inferior quality; the use, in the production of any professedly genuine article, of ingredients which are cheaper and of an inferior quality, or which are not considered so desirable by the consumer as other or genuine ingredients for which they are substituted.

n. The product or result of the act of adulterating; that which is adulterated.

n. being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating

n. the act of adulterating (especially the illicit substitution of one substance for another)

"On returning to his native land, he still continued to turn his chemical knowledge to account, by giving his services to that particular branch of our commercial industry which is commonly described as the adulteration of commodities; and from this he had gradually risen to the more refined pursuit of adulterating gold and silver -- or, to use the common phrase again, making bad money."

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