Contaminate
11contaminate — transitive verb ( nated; nating) Etymology: Middle English, from Latin contaminatus, past participle of contaminare; akin to Latin contingere to have contact with more at contingent Date: 15th century 1. a. to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by… …
12contaminate — UK [kənˈtæmɪneɪt] / US [kənˈtæmɪˌneɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms contaminate : present tense I/you/we/they contaminate he/she/it contaminates present participle contaminating past tense contaminated past participle contaminated 1) to make… …
13contaminate — contaminable, adj. contaminative, adj. contaminator, n. contaminous, adj. v. /keuhn tam euh nayt /; n., adj. /keuhn tam euh nit, nayt /, v., contaminated, contaminating, n., adj. v.t. 1. to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with… …
14contaminate — verb Contaminate is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑waste Contaminate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑food, ↑water …
15contaminate — [15] Contaminate appears to come from the same ultimate source as contact, a base *tag ‘touch’, which produced the Latin verb tangere ‘touch’ (whence English tactile, tangent, and tangible). It seems also to have formed the basis of a compound… …
16contaminate — [15] Contaminate appears to come from the same ultimate source as contact, a base *tag ‘touch’, which produced the Latin verb tangere ‘touch’ (whence English tactile, tangent, and tangible). It seems also to have formed the basis of a compound… …
17contaminate — verb To introduce impurities or foreign matter; to soil or defile. Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly. See Also: contaminable, contamination, contaminative …
18contaminate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. corrupt, infect, taint, pollute, soil; defile, sully, befoul, stain, dirty; debauch, deprave, degrade. See deterioration, uncleanness.Ant., purify. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. taint, pollute, defile,… …
19contaminate — con|tam|i|nate [ kən tæmı,neıt ] verb transitive 1. ) to make something dirty, polluted, or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection: Industrial sewage continues to contaminate our beaches. 2. ) to affect something or someone in a… …
20contaminate — verb (T) 1 to make a place or substance dirty and dangerous by adding something to it, for example chemicals or poison: fears that dumped waste might contaminate water supplies 2 to influence something in a way that has a bad effect contamination …
