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adultering

adultering is the present participle and gerund of adulter.

Meaning of adulter

Verb

adulter (third-person singular simple present adulters, present participle adultering, simple past and past participle adultered)

  1. (archaic) To commit adultery.
  2. (archaic) To pollute something; to adulterate.

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Questions about adultering

What is adultering the present participle and gerund of?
Adultering is the present participle and gerund of adulter.

Words near adultering in the dictionary

  1. adulteress
  2. adulteresses
  3. adulteries
  4. adulterine
  5. adulterines
  6. adultering
  7. adulterise
  8. adulterised
  9. adulterises
  10. adulterising
  11. adulterize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adultering (page history and authors); adulter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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