Contaminate vs Sully - What's the difference?
contaminate | sully | Synonyms |
To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
* Shakespeare
* Goldsmith
* '>citation
to soil or stain; to dirty
* Roscommon
to damage or corrupt
* Atterbury
To become soiled or tarnished.
* Francis Bacon
In transitive terms the difference between contaminate and sully
is that contaminate is to soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute while sully is to damage or corrupt.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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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
- He did not wish to sully his hands with gardening.
- statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke
- He did not wish to sully his reputation with an ill-mannered comment.
- no spots to sully the brightness of this solemnity
- Silvering will sully and canker more than gilding.