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con·tam·i·nat·ed

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. contaminatedadjective

    corrupted by contact or association

    "contaminated evidence"

  2. contaminated, pollutedadjective

    rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution

    "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"

GCIDE

  1. contaminatedadjective

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

  2. contaminatedadjective

    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.

Wiktionary

  1. contaminatedadjective

    adulterated; impure

Wikipedia

  1. contaminated

    Contamination is the presence of a constituent, impurity, or some other undesirable element that spoils, corrupts, infects, makes unfit, or makes inferior a material, physical body, natural environment, workplace, etc.

ChatGPT

  1. contaminated

    Contaminated generally refers to something that has been adulterated, polluted, tainted or infected with harmful, undesirable, or foreign substances. This can range from food and water to the environment, making it unsafe or unsuitable for use. It can also refer to when a sample or experiment is influenced or altered negatively by external factors.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Contaminated

    of Contaminate

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Contaminated in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Contaminated in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Contaminated in a Sentence

  1. Fahmi Radhy:

    It's good to choose (Soetjipto) as Pertamina CEO because he hasn't been contaminated by the oil and gas mafia.

  2. Andrea Sella:

    That means that if a container or a surface was contaminated with this material it would remain a danger for a long time.

  3. Paul Zambrotta:

    We're doing it more often than we have to, we have to take out possibly contaminated PPE which wasn't even supposed to be in there.

  4. Don Schaffner:

    If you are worried, you can always wash and or sanitize your hands after handling anything that you think might be contaminated.

  5. Cody Beverly:

    We drank mine water. We had no food, we just found a stream in the mine, just started drinking and hoping and praying to God that it was not contaminated.

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