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adulterizing

adulterizing is the present participle and gerund 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 adulterizing

What is adulterizing the present participle and gerund of?
Adulterizing is the present participle and gerund of adulterize.

Words near adulterizing in the dictionary

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

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