contaminates: meaning and definitions

EnglishType a word

What is contaminates?

What is contaminates?

  • To make impure or unclean by contact or mixture.
  • To expose to or permeate with radioactivity.
  • Linguistics To influence the semantic properties or phonological form of (a word or phrase); blend with: The Middle English word femelle was contaminated by the word male, resulting in the modern form female.

Search words

Upgrade your experience