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What (who) is Contaminate - definition
PRESENCE OF AN UNWANTED CONSTITUENT, HARMFUL SUBSTANCE OR IMPURITY IN A MATERIAL, PHYSICAL BODY, OR ENVIRONMENT
Contaminate; Contaminant; Contaminants; Cross contamination; Contaminated; Contaminating
contaminate
v. (D; tr.) to contaminate by, with (to contaminate smb. with smt; a wound contaminated by bacteria)
contaminate
¦ verb make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
Derivatives
contaminant noun
contamination noun
contaminator noun
Origin
ME: from L. contaminat-, contaminare 'make impure', from contamen 'contact, pollution', from con- 'together with' + the base of tangere 'to touch'.
contaminate
(contaminates, contaminating, contaminated)
If something is contaminated by dirt, chemicals, or radiation, they make it dirty or harmful.
Have any fish been contaminated in the Arctic Ocean?
...vast tracts of empty land, much of it contaminated by years of army activity.
VERB: be V-ed, V-ed
• contaminated
Nuclear weapons plants across the country are heavily contaminated with toxic wastes...
More than 100,000 people could fall ill after drinking contaminated water.
ADJ
• contamination
The contamination of the sea around Capri may be just the beginning.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
Wikipedia
Contamination
Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that spoils, corrupts, infects, makes unfit, or makes inferior a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.
Examples of use of Contaminate
1. If they didn‘t comply, he would contaminate dairy products.
2. Manure can also contaminate water wells with bacteria.
3. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
4. Its primary targets, however, were starlings, troublemaking birds that destroy crops and contaminate livestock feed.
5. Mr Trim said: ‘There are a few who, no matter what we do, contaminate.