Contaminate

Verb

 * 1) To introduce impurities or foreign matter; to soil or defile.

Thesaurus
infect, injure, irradiate, lace, mess, mess up, misuse, nasty, pervert, poison, pollute, prostitute, radiumize, ravage, ravish, rot, soil, spike, spoil, stain, sully, taint, tamper with, tarnish, twist, ulcerate, violate, vitiate, vulgarize, warp, water, water down, activate, adulterate, alloy, bastardize, befoul, benasty, canker, charge, cheapen, coarsen, confound, corrupt, cut, debase, debauch, defile, deflower, degenerate, degrade, denaturalize, denature, deprave, desecrate, despoil, devalue, dilute, dirty, disease, distort, doctor, doctor up, fortify, foul, harm,

Etymology
From contaminare: < contamen:, related to tangere:.

Related terms

 * contaminable
 * contamination
 * contaminative

Translations

 * Bulgarian: замърсявам
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: verunreinigen; verseuchen, kontaminieren
 * Italian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: truaill
 * Swedish: kontaminera

Verb
contaminate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense of contaminare
 * 2) second-person plural imperative of contaminare
 * 3) feminine plural past participle of contaminare