Inoculate vs Contaminate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between inoculate and contaminate

is that inoculate is while contaminate is .

* innoculate

(immunology) To introduce an antigenic substance or vaccine into the body, as to produce immunity to a specific disease.

(by extension) To safeguard or protect something as if by inoculation.

To add one substance to another; to spike.

The culture medium was inoculated with selenium to investigate the rate of uptake.

To graft by inserting buds.

to inoculate the bud of one tree or plant into another

to inoculate a tree

(figurative) To introduce into the mind (used especially of harmful ideas or principles); to imbue.

to inoculate someone with treason or infidelity

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(contaminat)

To introduce impurities or foreign matter to.

Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.

This water is contaminated . It isn't safe to drink.

To soil or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to pollute.

* Shakespeare

Shall we now / Contaminate our figures with base bribes?

* Goldsmith

I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated .

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