Contaminate

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  • transitive verb. To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
  • transitive verb. To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
  • transitive verb. To influence the semantic properties or phonological form of (a word or phrase); blend with.
  • noun. One that contaminates; a contaminant.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Contaminated; polluted; defiled; tainted; corrupt.
  • To render impure by mixture or contact; defile; pollute; sully; tarnish; taint; corrupt: usually in a figurative sense.
  • Synonyms To infect, poison, corrupt. See taint.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
  • transitive verb. To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To introduce impurities or foreign matter; to soil or defile.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. make impure
  • verb. make radioactive by adding radioactive material
    • Word Usage
    "As the cook cut the melons s/he transferred the contaminate from the outside of the fruit to the inside."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    alter  change  modify  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    decontaminate  laminate  
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    activate  adulterate  alloy  bastardize  befoul  
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