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adulterized

adulterized is the simple past and past participle of adulterize.

Meaning of adulterize

Verb

adulterize (third-person singular simple present adulterizes, present participle adulterizing, simple past and past participle adulterized)

  1. (intransitive, largely obsolete) To commit adultery.
    • ca 1644, John Milton, "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce", Book II, Chap. 18.
      Nevertheleſs, as I find that Grotius on this place hath obſerved the Chriſtian emperors, Theodoſius the IId and Juſtinian, men of high wiſdom and reputed piety, decreed it to be a divorcive fornication, if the wife...
  2. (ambitransitive, uncommon) To adulterate.

Questions about adulterized

What is adulterized the simple past and past participle of?
Adulterized is the simple past and past participle of adulterize.

Words near adulterized in the dictionary

  1. adulterise
  2. adulterised
  3. adulterises
  4. adulterising
  5. adulterize
  6. adulterized
  7. adulterizes
  8. adulterizing
  9. adulterous
  10. adulterously
  11. adulterousness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: adulterized (page history and authors); adulterize (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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