contaminate
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Is contaminate a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of contaminate?
Definition
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.Examples: "This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink."transitive
2. (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.Examples: "Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes?"; "I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated."; "[Martin] Heidegger's repellent political beliefs do not contaminate his philosophical work."transitive
3. (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.Examples: "Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly."transitive
4. (transitive) To infect, usually of a deadly virus.transitive
adj (English)
1. (used as a participle) Contaminated.Examples: "And that this body conſecrate to thee, By Ruffian Luſt ſhould be contaminate!"obsolete
2. (figuratively) Dirty, sinful, wicked, gross, etc.figurativelyobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary