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单词 contaminate
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contaminateadj.

/kənˈtamɪnət/
Etymology: < Latin contāminātus, past participle of contāmināre : see contaminate v.
archaic.
Contaminated, defiled, sullied. (Formerly construed as past participle.)
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective]
mixedc1300
pollutea1382
infectc1384
unpurea1398
fouledc1400
drossyc1420
polluteda1425
defouledc1440
dreggyc1440
feculent1471
filed1483
violate?c1500
feding1502
fly-blown1528
cankered1530
defiled1530
contagious1547
dregful1552
contaminatea1555
menstruous1560
dreggish1561
conspurcate1563
empoisoned1581
inquinated?1593
pollutionate1593
fly-bitten1598
impure1598
druggy1599
contaminated1609
transboundary1918
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > corrupted or corrupt > tainted or contaminated
infecta1387
leprousa1425
contaminatea1555
contaminated1609
a1555 H. Latimer Serm. St. Stephen's Day in Frutefull Serm. (1572) f. 162v Shewing that all we be contaminate.
1610 J. Healey tr. St. Augustine Citie of God i. viii. 15 Their filthy and contaminate liues.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 136 Shouldst thou but heare..that this body consecrate to thee, By Ruffian Lust should be contaminate ? View more context for this quotation
1788 Sir W. Young in Duke of Buckingham Court George III (1853) I. 391 Declining Lady Tyrconnel's visits, as a Lady whose character is contaminate!
1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. IV. x. 17 Filthy rags of speech..Tatters all too contaminate for use.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

contaminatev.

/kənˈtamɪneɪt/
Etymology: < Latin contāmināt- participial stem of contāmināre to bring into contact, mingle, corrupt, defile, < contāmen, -tāmin- (for contagmen) contact, infection, pollution, < con- + tag- stem of tangĕre to touch.
a. transitive. To render impure by contact or mixture; to corrupt, defile, pollute, sully, taint, infect.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > pollute or defile [verb (transitive)]
afileeOE
besmiteeOE
shenda950
befilec1000
bisulienc1200
defoulc1320
file1340
foilc1380
smota1387
lime1390
solwea1400
surda1400
infectc1425
filtha1450
poison?a1513
defile1530
polluve1533
inquinate1542
pollute1548
contaminate1563
bumfiddlec1595
impure1598
conspurcate1600
defoil1601
sullya1616
vilify1615
deturpate1623
impiate1623
defedate1628
dreg1628
contemerate1650
spot1741
empoison1775
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > corrupt > taint or infect
smiteeOE
besmiteeOE
smitOE
besmita1250
empoisonc1400
fadec1400
infect?c1400
attainta1529
leaven1534
inquinate1542
contaminate1563
taint1573
tack1601
beleper?a1625
1563 J. Foxe tr. C. Tunstall in Actes & Monuments 450/1 Whiche truely..will contaminate and infect the flocke..with moste deadly poyson and heresy.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 76 Shall we now, Contaminate our fingers, with base Bribes? View more context for this quotation
1671 J. Webster Metallographia viii. 124 Imperfect Metals infected or contaminated with terrestrial fœculency.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 8 All evils here contaminate the mind.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 247 Air that is contaminated by respiration.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 383 The foreign substances, with which the indigo is always contaminated.
1877 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth (ed. 4) xv. 141 Physical evil may crush, but moral evil can alone contaminate.
b. spec. (a) to subject to (the risk of) contamination by radioactivity; (b) to infect with poison gas; (c) Textual Criticism to subject to contamination (see contamination n. 1e). Cf. decontaminate v.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > pollute the environment [verb (transitive)] > infect with poison gas
contaminate1926
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > environmental pollution > pollute the environment [verb (transitive)] > subject to (risk of) radioactive contamination
contaminate1926
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > create version of text [verb (transitive)] > blend (texts)
contaminate1926
1926 R. W. Lawson tr. G. von Hevesy & F. A. Paneth Man. Radioactivity 61 All objects in the neighbourhood of strong polonium preparations become contaminated.
1938 Protection of Home against Air Raids (H.M.S.O.) 25 Mustard gas..also ‘contaminates’ clothing, or other objects exposed to it, making them dangerous to have near you or to touch until they have been ‘decontaminated’.
1942 R. W. Chapman in Ess. & Stud. XXVII. 43 A manuscript B, copied from A, may have been corrected or ‘contaminated’..by reference to a third manuscript C.
1945 E. Waugh Brideshead Revisited 16 ‘We are being sprayed with liquid mustard-gas,’ I said... There were no casualties and nothing had been contaminated.
1949 Schweitzer & Whitney Radioactive Tracer Technique i. 5 The student..may easily get his hands contaminated and from this source may contaminate the laboratory.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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