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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
contaminated
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
contaminated (=water that has harmful substances in it)
▪ They became ill from drinking contaminated water.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
blood
▪ Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8.
▪ Does she agree that haemophiliacs and others who are given contaminated blood transfusions receive them from the national health service?
▪ There are more than 1,000 haemophiliacs and nearly 100 others who received contaminated blood transfusions.
▪ They were given contaminated blood before tests were introduced in 1985.
food
▪ The concern is that most contaminated food is caused by incorrect storage at home, where fridge temperatures may be too high.
▪ The virus is spread through contact with contaminated food and water.
▪ If you eat some contaminated food, you will not necessarily feel the ill-effects immediately.
▪ There is no single agency responsible either for monitoring food safety or for prosecuting those who sell contaminated food.
▪ Humans can be affected by pesticides through breathing in spray, brushing against treated plants and eating contaminated food.
▪ Children pick up the eggs from contaminated food or pets, and the worms hatch out at night.
▪ As a result, there has been a steady inflow of contaminated food since July 1986.
land
▪ Friends of the Earth accused the government of retreating from a firmly-stated commitment to identify contaminated land.
▪ Registers of contaminated land would be available for public scrutiny from April 1993.
▪ Other factors include two years of drought, acid rain, run-off from contaminated land and reduced governmental expenditure on sewage treatment.
▪ For two decades therefore villagers lived near cyanide- contaminated land without even knowing.
site
▪ Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive, and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites.
▪ He foresees truck-mounted accelerator X-ray units being driven to contaminated sites.
▪ By last week, government and state officials had doubled their estimates of contaminated sites to about 100.
▪ Most of the debate about cleaning contaminated sites has concentrated on the Superfund programme.
▪ It would have obliged local authorities to draw up a register of contaminated sites in their area, and supervise their clean-up.
▪ The Agency has also pledged to triple the number of cleanups of contaminated sites conducted under the Superfund programme by 1993.
soil
▪ The programme will involve stripping lead paint from housing, replacing lead water pipes and removing contaminated soil from Tehranmany areas.
▪ There is also the question of whether it is better to treat on-site or to transport contaminated soil to a specialist plant.
▪ Sometimes conventional biological reactors are used to clean-up groundwater and/or contaminated soils.
water
▪ It spread fast in the contaminated water of the great cities, killing in all four epidemics about 100,000 people.
▪ The allegation was that the defendants had supplied contaminated water to the plaintiffs thereby causing them personal injury.
▪ Or Pavitra, who drinks contaminated water in her Delhi slum.
▪ Its hold is estimated to contain some 2,000 tons of contaminated water.
▪ Many had no time to save their possessions as the filthy, sewage contaminated water surged into their homes.
▪ This contaminated water eventually resurfaces as a spring, and effectively poisons the plants all around.
▪ From 200 years on, risks are mainly from contaminated water infecting crops.
▪ More than eight thousand gallons of contaminated water had to be pumped out of Cannop Brook.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ contaminated drinking water
▪ Contaminated water leaked from the nuclear reactor.
▪ Several people became ill after eating hamburger meat contaminated with the E.coli bacteria.
▪ The soil around the plant is heavily contaminated.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bioremediation appears to be a very attractive, and in many cases a cost-effective way of cleaning up many contaminated sites.
▪ But it later emerged that the first of three contaminated cargoes arrived on October 5.
▪ He foresees truck-mounted accelerator X-ray units being driven to contaminated sites.
▪ It arises when an immune animal is suddenly exposed to a massive larval challenge, usually from a heavily contaminated field.
▪ No one knows whether the area is contaminated or not.
▪ Surely she accepts that the Government were right to provide compensation for haemophiliacs who became infected through contaminated blood factor 8.
▪ The virus is spread through contact with contaminated food and water.
▪ When whales eat contaminated prey, organochlorines go first to the digestive system, and are then deposited in fatty tissues.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
contaminated

contaminated \contaminated\ adj.

  1. containing undesired or infective microorganisms.

    Syn: dirty, infected.

  2. rendered impure by addition of deleterious substances; as, had to boil the contaminated water.

    Syn: polluted.

  3. 1 (Computers) damaged by inclusion of incorrect data or information not belonging; as, The file was contaminated by a buggy editor.

    Syn: corrupted.

  4. appearing unethical due to a questionable source or motives; -- of money or activities; as, The fund was contaminated by a large donation from a mobster.

    Syn: tainted.

Wiktionary
contaminated

  1. adulterated; impure v

  2. (en-past of: contaminate)

WordNet
contaminated

  1. adj. corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence" [ant: uncontaminated]

  2. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: dirty, infected, pestiferous]

  3. rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams" [syn: polluted]

Usage examples of "contaminated".

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?

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.

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?

He had congratulated the House that it had not been contaminated by the presence of so base a creature, and he had said that he would not pause to stigmatize the meanness of the application for money which Lopez had made.

Mercer Meats selling contaminated hamburger patties to the Onion Ring restaurant chain.

If the Engineers kept up their attempts to attack the Orbitals, if the warheads kept betraying their age and instability, if Duncan kept on throwing rocks, food, water, and air would be contaminated with radioactive fallout.