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Contaminated vs Putrid - What's the difference?

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Contaminated is a related term of putrid.


As adjectives the difference between contaminated and putrid

is that contaminated is adulterated; impure while putrid is rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.

As a verb contaminated

is (contaminate).

contaminated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (contaminate)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • adulterated; impure
  • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "contaminated" is often applied: food, meat, fish, milk, water, groundwater, land, soil, sediment, site, property, air, product, material.

    putrid

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Rotting, rotten, being in a state of putrefaction.
  • of, relating to, or characteristic of putrefaction, especially having a bad smell, like that of rotting flesh.
  • Vile, disgusting.
  • morally corrupt
  • totally objectionable
  • Usage notes

    * Nouns to which "putrid" is often applied: smell, odor, flesh, matter, meat.

    Synonyms

    * malodorous

    See also

    * rotten * foul * odor

    Anagrams

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