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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024con•tam•i•nate /kənˈtæməˌneɪt/USA pronunciation v. [~ + object], -nat•ed, -nat•ing. - to make impure, harmful, or unusable by contact or mixture with something unclean; pollute;
taint:The oil spill contaminated the sea. - to make (something) harmful by the addition of radioactive material:After the nuclear power plant accident, crops were badly contaminated in the area.
con•tam•i•na•ble /kənˈtæmənəbəl/USA pronunciation adj. con•tam•i•nat•ed, adj.: contaminated water supplies.con•tam•i•na•tion /kənˌtæməˈneɪʃən/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]trying to prevent contamination of our water supplies.con•tam•i•na•tor, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024con•tam•i•nate (v. kən tam′ə nāt′;n., adj. kən tam′ə nit, -nāt′),USA pronunciation v., -nat•ed, -nat•ing, n., adj. v.t. - to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc.:to contaminate a lake with sewage.
- to render harmful or unusable by adding radioactive material to:to contaminate a laboratory.
n. - something that contaminates or carries contamination;
contaminant.
adj. - [Obs.]contaminated.
- *tag-s-men, equivalent. to tag-, variant stem of tangere to touch + -s-men resultative noun, nominal suffix; compare examen
- Latin contāminātus, past participle of contāmināre to defile, spoil, equivalent. to con- con- + -tāminare, verb, verbal derivative of *tāmen something touched
- late Middle English contaminaten 1375–1425
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged defile, pollute, taint, infect, poison, corrupt.
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