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contaminate

[ verb kuhn-tam-uh-neyt; noun adjective kuhn-tam-uh-nit, -neyt ]

verb (used with object)

contaminated, contaminating.
  1. to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.:

    to contaminate a lake with sewage.

    Synonyms: , , , , ,

  2. to render harmful or unusable by adding radioactive material to:

    to contaminate a laboratory.



noun

  1. something that contaminates or carries contamination; contaminant.

adjective

  1. Obsolete. contaminated.

contaminate

verb

  1. to make impure, esp by touching or mixing; pollute
  2. to make radioactive by the addition of radioactive material
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. archaic.
    contaminated
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 肠辞苍藞迟补尘颈苍补迟颈惫别, adjective
  • 肠辞苍藞迟补尘颈苍补产濒别, adjective
  • 肠辞苍藞迟补尘颈藢苍补迟辞谤, noun
  • 肠辞苍藞迟补尘颈苍补苍迟, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍补路产濒别 adjective
  • 肠辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍补顎卼颈惫别 adjective
  • 肠辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍补顎卼辞谤 noun
  • 肠辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍辞耻蝉 adjective
  • non顎叧Υ遣月烦俨钩绢僫路苍补路产濒别 adjective
  • non顎叧Υ遣月烦俨钩绢僫路苍补顎卼颈惫别 adjective
  • 谤别顎卌辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍补迟别顎 verb (used with object) recontaminated recontaminating
  • 蝉别濒蹿顎-肠辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍补迟顎卛苍驳 adjective
  • un顎叧Υ遣月烦俨钩绢僫路苍补路产濒别 adjective
  • 耻苍顎卌辞苍路迟补尘顎僫路苍补迟顎卐诲 adjective
  • un顎叧Υ遣月烦俨钩绢僫路苍补顎卼颈惫别 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of contaminate1

1375鈥1425; late Middle English contaminaten < Latin 肠辞苍迟腻尘颈苍腻迟耻蝉, past participle of 肠辞苍迟腻尘颈苍腻谤别 to defile, spoil, equivalent to con- con- + -迟腻尘颈苍补谤别, verbal derivative of *迟腻尘别苍 something touched < *tag-s-men, equivalent to tag-, variant stem of tangere to touch + -s-men resultative noun suffix; examen
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of contaminate1

C15: from Latin 肠辞苍迟补尘颈苍腻谤别 to defile; related to Latin contingere to touch
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Example Sentences

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They put yellow caution tape around the vehicle and shut down the car wash business because of the contaminated vacuum cleaner.

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A quarter of Ukraine's land mass is estimated to be contaminated with landmines, mainly concentrated in the war-torn east of the country.

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Large amounts of Agent Orange had been stored at the Da Nang airport during the war and contaminated the soil with dioxin.

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The contaminated water released toxic gas that briefly engulfed Dunsmuir and made hundreds of people ill.

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It is yet another example of the state鈥檚 failing water systems, many of which are in rural parts of the state鈥檚 Central Valley, where water is drawn from wells that are contaminated.

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