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Contaminate vs Pollutes - What's the difference?

contaminate | pollutes |

As verbs the difference between contaminate and pollutes

is that contaminate is to introduce impurities or foreign matter to while pollutes is (pollute).

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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    pollutes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pollute)

    • Anagrams

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    pollute

    English

    Verb

    (pollut)
  • To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
    • The factory pollute d the river when it cleaned its tanks.
  • To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
    • The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.
  • (dated) To corrupt or profane
  • * But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted , as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” —Revelation 21:8 (RSV)
  • To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.

    • Derived terms

    * self-pollute

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Polluted.

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