Definitions for contaminate
kənˈtæm əˌneɪt; -nɪt, -ˌneɪtcon·tam·i·nate

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pollute, foul, contaminateverb

   make impure

   "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

2. contaminateverb

   make radioactive by adding radioactive material

   "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. contaminateverb

   To introduce impurities or foreign matter; to soil or defile.

   Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Contaminateadjective

   Polluted; defiled.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   What if this body, consecrate to thee,
   By ruffian lust should be contaminate? William Shakespeare, Com. of Err.

2. To CONTAMINATEverb

   To defile; to pollute; to corrupt by base mixture.

   Etymology: contamino, Lat.

   Shall we now
   Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? William Shakespeare, Jul. Cæsar.

   A base pander holds the chamber-door,
   Whilst by a slave, no gentler than a dog,
   His fairest daughter is contaminated. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

   Do it not with poison; strangle her in her bed,
   Even in the bed she hath contaminated. William Shakespeare, Othello.

   I quickly shed
   Some of his bastard-blood; and, in disgrace,
   Bespoke him thus: contaminated, base,
   And misbegotten blood I spill of thine. William Shakespeare, Hen. VI. p. i.

   Though it be necessitated, by its relation to flesh, to a terrestrial converse; yet ’tis like the sun, without contaminating its beams. Joseph Glanvill, Apol.

   He that lies with another man’s wife, propagates children in another’s family for him to keep, and contaminates the honour thereof as much as in him lies. John Ayliffe, Parergon.

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1. contaminate

   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.

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1. contaminate

   To contaminate means to make impure, unclean or harmful by introducing pollutants, undesirable substances or germs. It can refer to pollution of the environment such as air, water, or soil, or contamination of food or other substances. It can also refer to corruption or spoiling something by introducing a harmful or less desirable element.

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1. Contaminateverb

   to soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile

2. Contaminateadjective

   contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Contaminate

   kon-tam′i-nāt, v.t. to defile by touching or mixing with: to pollute: to corrupt: to infect.—adj. Contam′inable.—n. Contaminā′tion, pollution.—adj. Contam′inative. [L. contamināre, -ātum—contamen (for contagmen), pollution. See Contact.]

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   The numerical value of contaminate in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of contaminate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of contaminate in a Sentence

1. Education Naftali Bennett:

   We will maintain a clean education system, we will not allow anyone to contaminate our children.

2. Siddharth Sridhar:

   What we know is the rats in Hong Kong carry the virus, and we test the humans and find the virus. But how exactly it jumps between them -- whether the rats contaminate our food, or there's another animal involved, we don't know, that's the missing link.

3. Baland Jalal:

   Exposure therapy can be very stressful and so is not always effective or even feasible for many patients, if you can provide an indirect treatment that's reasonably realistic, where you contaminate a rubber hand instead of a real hand, this might provide a bridge that will allow more people to tolerate exposure therapy or even replace (it) altogether.

4. John Suttles:

   This confirms that Duke has committed serious and long-standing environmental crimes, but it does not clean up the coal ash that is every day continuing to contaminate our drinking water.

5. Greenlight Capital David Einhorn:

   We object to oil fracking because their investments can contaminate portfolio returns.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=contaminate
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Contaminate
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=contaminate
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contaminate
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contaminate
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=contaminate