Contaminate vs. Contaminant — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Contaminate and Contaminant
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Contaminate
To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
Contaminant
One that contaminates.
Contaminate
To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
Contaminant
That which contaminates; an impurity; foreign matter.
Put the lid on the jar to keep contaminants out.
Contaminate
(Linguistics) To influence the semantic properties or phonological form of (a word or phrase); blend with
The Middle English word femelle was contaminated by the word male, resulting in the modern form female.
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Contaminant
A substance that contaminates
Contaminate
One that contaminates; a contaminant.
Contaminate
(transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink.
Contaminate
(transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
Contaminate
(transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
Contaminate
To infect, often with bad objects
Contaminate
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
Shall we nowContaminate our figures with base bribes?
I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated.
Contaminate
Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
Contaminate
Make impure;
The industrial wastes polluted the lake
Contaminate
Make radioactive by adding radioactive material;
Don't drink the water--it's contaminated
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