Polluted vs Contaminate - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between polluted and contaminate

is that polluted is simple past and past participle of pollute while contaminate is to introduce impurities or foreign matter to.

is defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

(Webster 1913)

(en adjective)

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

* pollutedly * pollutedness

(head)

Simple past and past participle of pollute.

(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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