About The Word Contaminate
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Contaminate
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What's The Definition Of Contaminate?
[v] make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
[v] make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" Synonyms | Synonyms for Contaminate: foul | pollute Related Terms | Find terms related to Contaminate: activate | adulterate | alloy | bastardize | befoul | benasty | canker | charge | cheapen | coarsen | confound | corrupt | cut | debase | debauch | defile | deflower | degenerate | degrade | denaturalize | denature | deprave | desecrate | despoil | devalue | dilute | dirty | disease | distort | doctor | doctor up | fortify | foul | harm | infect | injure | irradiate | lace | mess | mess up | misuse | nasty | pervert | poison | pollute | prostitute | radiumize | ravage | ravish | rot | soil | spike | spoil | stain | sully | taint | tamper with | tarnish | twist | ulcerate | violate | vitiate | vulgarize | warp | water | water down See Also | alter | begrime | bemire | change | colly | dirty | grime | infect | soil | taint Contaminate In Webster's Dictionary \Con*tam"i*nate\ (k[o^]n*t[a^]m"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. {Contaminated}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Contaminating}.] [L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to
bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion,
for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See
{Contact}.]
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully;
to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
--Shak.
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor
virtue contaminated. --Goldsmith.
Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain;
corrupt.
\Con*tam"i*nate\ (-n[asl]t), a. Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. ``Contaminate drink.'' --Daniel. |
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