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ADULTERATED
Definition of ADULTERATED
adjective
Intentionally tainted with impurities (usually as motivated by cheapening the production of a food product or enhancing the psychotropic effects of a street drug).
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Where it comes from
The adjectival sense's relation to adultery is the common theme that corruption or pollution has occurred; more at adulterate. By surface analysis, adulterate + -ed.
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, ADULTERATE · 3 relatives in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
ADULTERATED in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 152, 19 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 14 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 152, 19 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
ADULTERATED starts with A and ends with D. Sorted, its letters read AADDEELRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. A, D, T and E appear more than once.
Words that start ADULTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found ADULTERATED?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 152 - and most players walked straight past it.
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