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Contaminate
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith.
Synonyms: pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: adjective (a.)
Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. "Contaminate drink." Daniel.