1. Corrupted by contact or association
   "contaminated evidence" 
2. Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution
   "had to boil the contaminated water"
   - polluted

1. Make impure
   - pollute, foul 
2. Make radioactive by adding radioactive material
   "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"

See also: contamination, contaminative, impure, mercury-contaminated

Type of: alter, begrime, bemire [archaic], change, colly [archaic], dirty, grime, modify, soil

Antonym: decontaminate, uncontaminated

Encyclopedia: Contaminate

• Carboniferous period
• carbonisation
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• carbonization
• carbonize
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• apologia
• apologise
• apologist
• apologize
• apologue
• apology
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• apomict
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• apomixis
• apomorphine
• aponeurosis
• aponeurotic
• apopemptic
• apophasis
• apophatic
• apophatism
• apophthegm