Contaminate vs Ravish - 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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(obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.
To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.
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To rape.
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* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:
Contaminate is a related term of ravish.
As verbs the difference between contaminate and ravish
is that contaminate is to introduce impurities or foreign matter to while ravish is (obsolete|or|archaic) to seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.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 .
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(es)citation, passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}
citation, passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}
- For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.