| 单词 | contaminate |
| 释义 | con·tam·i·nate I. 1. < a surgical wound contaminated by bacteria > < believers contaminated by the presence of infidels > : make inferior or impure by mixture : pollute < iron contaminated by phosphorus > 2. < water contaminated by sewage > < contaminate a state the size of Maryland with radioactivity — R.E.Lapp > Synonyms: < the surgical wound became contaminated > < the incoming air will not be contaminated with exhaust or oil fumes — H.G.Armstrong > < you allowed your fine magazine to be contaminated with such a vicious, foul, and absurd writing — Fortune > taint usually suggests a less complete debasing than contaminate, often suggesting only a partial contamination, but stresses more strongly the sullied or stained quality of the thing acted upon < water … becomes tainted easily through smells and impurities in the air — Henry Wynmalen > < the poison of greed, ambition, and vulgarity had not tainted the Italian air — Ann Bridge > attaint, less frequently used than taint, has come, because of etymological similarity, to be used as synonymous with taint though it suggests the idea of infection or of inevitable corruption following from an original sullying contact < our writers have been attainted by the disease they must help to cure — Waldo Frank > < the slightest contact with them attaints and works corruption of the blood — G.W.Johnson > pollute carries strongly the idea of a completed process of contamination, especially and usually an offensive contamination < water polluted by garbage and other filth > defile implies a willful befouling of what ought to be kept clean, clear, or bright, frequently, therefore, suggesting violation, profanation or desecration < wheat which the mice ate or defiled — F.E.Garlough > < cruelty is not only the worst accusation that can be brought against a man, defiling the whole character — Hilaire Belloc > < the Sabbath should not be defiled — William McFee > II. obsolete |
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