contaminate
Meaning of contaminate
- To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink.
- To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
- To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
- To infect, often with bad objects
Information about contaminate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of contaminate is: contaminates.
- Languages in which contaminate is used:
(Press the button to hear it)
Hyphenation of contaminate
con-tam-i-nate
- It consists of 4 syllables and 11 chars.
- contaminate is a word polysyllabic because it has four or more syllables
contaminate synonyms
Meaning pollute:
Translation of contaminate
- German: verschmutzen
- Italian: contaminare, inquinare
- French: polluer, contaminer
- Spanish: contaminar, impurificar, emponzoñar
Words that rhyme with contaminate
Nate, Alphanate, Banate, Bromanate, Depanate, Italianate, Lomanate, Plasmanate, Thiophanate, acetylglucopyranosylisothiocyanate, acetylphenylisothiocyanate, acetyltryptophanate, adamantylisocyanate, aldermanate, allophanate, alloxanate, allylisothiocyanate, allylthiocyanate, aminobenzylpenicilianate, aminoethylthiocyanate, aminopenicillanate, amoscanate, anate, applanate, azidophenylisothiocyanate, banate, benzoylisothiocyanate, benzylisothiocyanate, benzylthiocyanate, biphenyldiisocyanate, biphenylisothiocyanate, bisthiocyanate, bitoscanate, bromoallylisothiocyanate, bromoallylthiocyanate, bromobenzylisothiocyanate, bromopenicillanate, bromophenylisocyanate, bromophenylisothiocyanate, butenylisothiocyanate, butylcyanate, butylisothiocyanate, calpanate, cephalosporanate, chlorobenzylthiocyanate, chloroethylisocyanate, chloromethylthiocyanate, chlorophenylisothiocyanate, chlorophenylthiocyanate, chlorosulfonylisocyanate