Contaminated vs Contaminates - What's the difference?
contaminated | contaminates |
(contaminate)
(contaminate)
To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
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As verbs the difference between contaminated and contaminates
is that contaminated is (contaminate) while contaminates is .As an adjective contaminated
is adulterated; impure.contaminated
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* Nouns to which "contaminated" is often applied: food, meat, fish, milk, water, groundwater, land, soil, sediment, site, property, air, product, material.contaminates
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(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 .