Overview of verb contaminate

The verb contaminate has 2 senses

• pollute, foul, contaminate -- (make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake")


• contaminate -- (make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated")

Overview of adj contaminating

The adj contaminating has 2 senses

• dirty, contaminating -- (spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout")


• corrupting, contaminating -- (that infects or taints)