Contaminate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
  • v. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
  • n. One that contaminates; a contaminant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To introduce impurities or foreign matter; to soil or defile.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
  • adj. Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To render impure by mixture or contact; defile; pollute; sully; tarnish; taint; corrupt: usually in a figurative sense.
  • Synonyms To infect, poison, corrupt. See taint.
  • Contaminated; polluted; defiled; tainted; corrupt.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. make impure
  • v. make radioactive by adding radioactive material
  • Verb Form
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    change    modify    alter   
    Cross Reference
    foul    vitiate   
    Synonym
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    taint    sully    pollute    defile    tarnish    corrupt    stain    soil    contaminated    defiled   
    Rhyme
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