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Contaminate vs Pollutant - What's the difference?

contaminate | pollutant |

As a verb contaminate

is to introduce impurities or foreign matter to.

As a noun pollutant is

a foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.

contaminate

English

Verb

(contaminat)
  • To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
    • Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
    This water is contaminated . It isn't safe to drink.
  • To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Shall we now / Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
  • * Goldsmith
    • I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .
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    • Related terms

    * contaminable * contamination * contaminative

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    pollutant

    English

    (wikipedia pollutant)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A foreign substance that makes something dirty, or impure, especially waste from human activities.