adulteration

English Thesaurus

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

hypernym	:	change,
definition	:	the action of changing something (noun.act)

2. being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating (noun.state)

hypernym	:	impureness, impurity,
definition	:	the condition of being impure (noun.state)

derivation	:	adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch,
definition	:	corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones (verb.change)

derivation	:	adulterate, debase, dilute, load, stretch,
definition	:	corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones (verb.change)