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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. Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez:

    We are preparing ourselves for de-escalation for which it is important to know who is contaminated to be able to gradually lift Spanish citizens' lockdown.

  2. Bob Baffert:

    We live in a new world now. These horses do n’t live in a bubble, they’re in an open farm. People are touching them. He went from Kentucky Derby to after the Derby everybody’s out there touching them. I mean there’s so many ways these horses can get contaminated and when they’re testing at these really ridiculously low levels … I’ve been saying Kentucky Derby for over a year now these are gon na get innocent people in trouble and this is what happened now.

  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. Navneet Marwah:

    First tests were done in 2016 when reports came out that Johnson Johnson baby powder might be contaminated. Initial tests were negative. But following the recent reports, we took samples that we will test once again.

  5. Carmela Stamper:

    People can get sick after handling contaminated dog food, not washing their hands, and then using their hands to eat a sandwich or a slice of pizza.

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