Usually means: Intentional contamination of products, substances.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word adulteration:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulteration: Merriam-Webster
  2. adulteration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adulteration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. adulteration: Vocabulary.com
  5. Adulteration, adulteration: Wordnik
  6. adulteration: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. adulteration: Wiktionary
  8. adulteration: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. adulteration: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. adulteration: Dictionary.com
  11. adulteration: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Adulteration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Adulteration: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. adulteration: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. adulteration: Rhymezone
  16. Adulteration: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. adulteration: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. adulteration: FreeDictionary.org
  19. adulteration: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. adulteration: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. adulteration: Merriam-Webster

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulteration: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. adulteration: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. adulteration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. adulteration: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (adulteration)

▸ noun:  The process of adulterating.
▸ noun:  The condition of being adulterated.

Similar:
debasement, adulterant, adulterator, adultery, sophistication, contamination, salting, misblend, adultry, intermeddlement, more...

Opposite:
pureness, unadulterated, untainted, unspoiled, pristine

Types:
spiking, diluting, cutting, lacing, smurfing, more...

Phrases:
food adulteration, adulteration of food, Olive oil regulation and adulteration, 2008 Chinese heparin adulteration, more...

Adjectives:
such, fraudulent, much, extensive, intentional, deliberate, possible, common, frequent, gross, widespread
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Similar:
debasement, adulterant, adulterator, adultery, sophistication, contamination, salting, misblend, adultry, intermeddlement, more...

Opposite:
pureness, unadulterated, untainted, unspoiled, pristine

Types:
spiking, diluting, cutting, lacing, smurfing, more...

Phrases:
food adulteration, adulteration of food, Olive oil regulation and adulteration, 2008 Chinese heparin adulteration, more...

Adjectives:
such, fraudulent, much, extensive, intentional, deliberate, possible, common, frequent, gross, widespread



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