ATE(Verb)
Meaning:
- To make impure or inferior by deceptively adding foreign substances
- alter or debase, often, for profit, to corrupt
- To corrupt, debase, or make impure by an admixture of a
foreign or a baser substance; as, to adulterate food,drink, drugs, coin, etc. Antonyms: clarify, clean, cleanse, distill, filter, free, purify, refine
