adultery

noun
🔊/əˈdʌltəri/
🔊/əˈdʌltəri/
[uncountable]
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  1. sex between a married person and somebody who is not their husband or wife通奸
    • He was accused of committing adultery.他被控通奸。🔊🔊
    Topics Family and relationshipsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + adultery
    • be guilty of
    • commit
    • accuse somebody of
    preposition
    • adultery with
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    Word Originlate 15th cent.: from the obsolete noun adulter, from Latin adulter ‘adulterer’, replacing an earlier form avoutrie, from Old French avouterie.