-n. 4. grownup, man, gentleman, woman, lady, twenty-one-year-old.
adulterate, v. alloy, tamper with, doctor, water down, thin out, SI. cut; defile, make impure, deflower, contaminate, taint, pollute, infect; weaken, enfeeble, Archaic, extenuate, debilitate; impair, vitiate, spoil, mar, unfit, depreciate; degrade, debase, lower, deteriorate, warp, pervert, prostitute; corrupt, subvert, canker.
adulterated, adj.1. alloyed, doctored, adulterate, tampered with, watered down, mixed, SI. cut; defiled, impure, contaminated, tainted, polluted, infected; weakened, enfeebled, debilitated; impaired, vitiated, spoiled, marred, depreciated; degraded, debased, lowered, deteriorated, warped, perverted, prostituted; corrupted, subverted, cankered.
2. adulterine, adulterous, ungenuine, spurious, un-authentic, meretricious.
adulteration, n.admixture, watering down, thinning out; defilement, contamination, pollution; impairment, vitiation, depreciation, disrepair, deterioration; degradation, debasement, perversion, corruption.
adulterous, adj.1. illicit, adulterate, unlicensed, unlawful, illegal; corrupt, immoral, impure, unchaste; dissolute, licentious, rakish; lustful, salacious, concupiscent, lecherous, prurient, lascivious, libidinous.
2. spurious, adulterine, ungenuine, unauthentic, mock, bogus.
adultery, n.fornication, Law.criminal conversation, infidelity, unfaithfulness, Euph.
playing orfooling around, SI. hanky-panky, cuckoldry; intrigue, liaison, affair, amour; libertinism, licentiousness, unchastity.
adumbrate, v. 1. silhouette, outline, sketch, give a rough sketch of, trace; delineate, draft, diagram, chart; approximate, give a faint resemblance of, give an idea of; represent, portray, image, paint; explain, describe, tell about.
2. foreshadow, prefigure, forecast, predict, prophesy; portend, presage, prognosticate, warn, Rare,
premonish; indicate, suggest, hint, give an idea of; denote, mark, emblem, symbolize, typify, allegorize.
3. overshadow, shadow, shade, overcast, cast a shadow over, becloud, cloud over; bedim, dim, darken, gloom, eclipse, opaque; cover, veil, conceal, hide; obscure, obfuscate, blur, confuse, muddle.
adumbration, n.1. silhouette, sketch, rough sketch, outline, delineation; draft, diagram, chart; approximation, resemblance, semblance, ghost, trace; representation, portrayal, picture, image; description, explanation.
2. foreshadower, prefigurement, forecast, prophecy; portent, presage, augury, omen, warning; indication, suggestion, hint, idea; prototype, archetype, type, model; symbol, sign, emblem, mark; parable, allegory, simile, metaphor, Rhet.
parabole, Rhet.
figure of speech.
3. shadow, penumbra, umbra, cloud; cover, veil, eclipse.
4. foreshadowing, prefiguration, prediction, premonition, prognostication; denotation, symbolization, typification, allegorization, parabolization.
5. overshadowing, shadowing, shading; obscuring, obfuscation, blurring, confusion, muddlement.
advance, v. 1. send onward, push orbring forward, move orput forward; propel, shove, force toward the front orfore.
2. go forward, make headway, move on oronward, march orstep forward; proceed, continue, keep going, press orpush on, go orget on; make progress, gain ground, catch up; take the lead, get orgo ahead; push forward, forge ormove ahead, make way, clear the way; edge orinch along, move orgo along.
