Crossword clues for contaminate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contaminate \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.
Contaminate \Con*tam"i*nate\ (-n[asl]t), a.
Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. ``Contaminate
drink.''
--Daniel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To introduce impurities or foreign matter to. 2 (context transitive English) To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
WordNet
v. make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul]
make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated" [ant: decontaminate]
Usage examples of "contaminate".
He showed the baggies on their stainless steel tray, and then the chairs around the contaminated spot of carpet.
An inner sense told him that the contaminated cells of the Bololo matrix were returning to health.
And a 1200-degree Celsius autoclave for incinerating contaminated equipment and rotting specimens.
During inspection, he complained that his overseer-a brute named Silas Jones-was giving him only corncracker and water, and that the water was filthy and contaminated with slime.
She can make rough estimates of some of these from analyses of the Martian water, but it was almost certainly contaminated when the borehole was drilled, and change in one variable can easily affect others.
Martian water, but it was almost certainly contaminated when the borehole was drilled, and change in one variable can easily affect others.
You are given a scale and allowed to make just one measurement with it How do you tell which jar is contaminated?
But would it be enough to absorb the GUTX that would surely contaminate the pasta Puttanesca she was about to eat?
For the unconscious, which always tries to turn every good lay into a mother figure, had contaminated the insight which his supraconscious had almost given him.
About a mile to the west, the third Mars bomber finished releasing its load into the ocean from there, the surface currents would allow the Ulva to mix with the contaminated Thio-uni.
The nightmare would be reserved for all of those thousands of people on the fringe of the effects, the ones having to deal with radioactive rain or soot from the North Sea oil fires, for the fishermen and roughnecks and workboat crews swamped by the radioactive base surge, for the kids made sick by contaminated milk and grain and livestock ashore.
Like Kamakura and Yokohama, which were part of the Tokyo megalopolis a few miles north, Yokosuka had been one of the port cities where the British and others seeking trade with Japan were isolated so as not to contaminate the purity of Nippon.
These malpractice attorneys must have recruited Trent Harding to contaminate Marcaine ampules and place them in OR supplies.
Plus, your uniforms, communicators, and tricorders are contaminated and they must be destroyed.
In the name of the Immortals, from whom thou art descended, I ask thee, Bent-Anat, art thou clean, or hast thou, through the touch of the unclean, defiled thyself and contaminated thy royal hand?