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Contaminate

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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