contaminate
IPA: kʌntˈæmʌneɪt
verb
- (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
- (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
- (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
- To infect, often with bad objects
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Examples of "contaminate" in Sentences
- The authorities had been allowed to "contaminate" the results,
- As the cook cut the melons s/he transferred the contaminate from the outside of the fruit to the inside.
- To me it recalls the thinking that a drop of African blood in one's heritage was enough to "contaminate" one's whiteness.
- The guards scrambled to pick up all the leaflets so our message wouldn't "contaminate" the criminals confined in the prison.
- This of course raises a question: if shoes are so ritually unclean, just how are these people holding these shoes so as not to 'contaminate' themselves?
- That human explorers will "contaminate" Mars is inevitable -- humans contain oceans of bacteria, and a human presence on Mars is sure to leave some behind.
- If I were to perform this work and have my LLC send them the bill, would these earnings "contaminate" my passive income thereby screwing up my tax situation?
- While local television broadcasts are permitted, cinemas are banned, and Khan rails against Western videos that "contaminate" Islamic and Afghan cultural values.
- The 18,000 Druse and 2,000 Alawites on the Golan would be reunited with their co-religionists, but decades of life under the Zionists will have created social, economic and, yes, political expectations that could "contaminate" the larger Syrian polity.
- David Cameron's favourite thinktank, Policy Exchange, published a book-length condemnation which claims that The Spirit Level's authors had produced a shabby, shallow work which threatened to "contaminate" our presumably honest political debate, as if it were an oil slick heading towards a pristine coast.
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