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Adjective contaminated has 3 senses
  1. contaminated - corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"
    Antonym:     uncontaminated
  2. contaminated, dirty, infected, pestiferous - contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
    Antonym: antiseptic (indirect, via septic)
  3. contaminated, polluted - rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
    Antonym: pure (indirect, via impure)
,Verb contaminate has 2 senses
  1. pollute, foul, contaminate - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
    --1 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
    Derived forms: noun contamination2, noun contamination1, noun contamination3, noun contaminant1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
  2. contaminate - make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
    --2 is one way to     change, alter, modify
    Antonyms: decontaminate
    Derived forms: noun contamination2, noun contamination1, noun contamination3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
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