admixture
- n the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- n an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base
the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure - n the act of mixing together
- Children often have delusions of omnipotence, and perhaps adult megalomania derives from that, with a sinister admixture of the child's spirit of play and exhibitionism.
- The People's Republic of China, separated so long from the outer world by an instinctive xenophobia and an admixture of reclusive Maoism, in 1978 began its Great Leap Outward, or .
- Third baseman Joe Crede put his finger on the admixture of joy and disbelief swirling over this Series city: "It's weird that it is happening here in Chicago--and I'm part of the .