Contaminate vs Decontaminate - What's the difference?
contaminate | decontaminate |
To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.
To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.
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* Goldsmith
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To remove contamination from something, and thus render it safe.
As verbs the difference between contaminate and decontaminate
is that contaminate is to introduce impurities or foreign matter to while decontaminate is to remove contamination from something, and thus render it safe.contaminate
English
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 .