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| adulterant |
something that, when added to a substance, makes the substance impure or inferior. [1/2 definitions] |
| adulterate |
to make worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. [2/3 definitions] |
| adulteration |
the act or process of adulterating, or making worse or impure by adding unnecessary or inferior ingredients. [1/3 definitions] |
| benzol |
an impure form of benzene, used in the chemical industry. [1/2 definitions] |
| cocktail2 |
a horse of mixed or impure breed. [1/2 definitions] |
| contaminate |
to make impure or unusable by contact or by adding a harmful substance. |
| culm1 |
shale or sandstone containing impure anthracite. [1/3 definitions] |
| impurity |
the state or condition of being impure. [1/2 definitions] |
| isolate |
in chemistry, to extract a pure substance from an impure one. [1/3 definitions] |
| pollutant |
something that pollutes, esp. a waste substance that makes air, water, or land impure or unhealthy; contaminant. |
| pollute |
to cause to become immoral or impure; taint. [1/3 definitions] |
| polluted |
made unclean, impure, unhealthy, or corrupt; contaminated. |
| purge |
to rid of anything impure or unwanted. [1/12 definitions] |
| salt cake |
impure sodium sulfate, used in the manufacture of paper pulps, soaps, detergents, dyes, and ceramic glazes. |
| scum |
impure matter that forms on the surface of a liquid. [1/5 definitions] |
| siderite |
a yellowish to light-brown impure iron ore; iron carbonate. [1/2 definitions] |
| stifle |
to suffer from having to breathe impure or hot air. [1/5 definitions] |
| unchaste |
impure or immodest, esp. in sexual conduct; not chaste. |
| unclean |
morally impure; unchaste. [2/3 definitions] |
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