Contaminate vs Corrode - What's the difference?
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To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
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To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
In transitive terms the difference between contaminate and corrode
is that contaminate is to soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute while corrode is to consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.contaminate
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Verb
(contaminat)- Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
- This water is contaminated . It isn't safe to drink.
- Shall we now / Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
- I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .
