adulterado

adulterated

adjective ah-dool-teh-RAH-doh Rare

Also means

contaminated

Usage Note

Adulterado describes food, drink, or substances that have been tampered with or diluted illegally. It is the past participle of adulterar used as an adjective, and agrees in gender and number: leche adulterada, productos adulterados. In legal and journalistic contexts it often carries the sense of deliberate fraud rather than accidental contamination.

Examples

"El vino adulterado fue retirado del mercado."

Natural Translation

The adulterated wine was withdrawn from the market.

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