Meaning of CONTAMINATED
Pronunciation: | | kunt'amun`eytud
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- [adj] rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
- [adj] corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"
- [adj] contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
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| Synonyms: | | dirty, impure, infected, polluted, septic |
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| Antonyms: | | uncontaminated | |
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| Related Terms: | | abandoned, activated, autoluminescent, bad, bad for, cankered, charged, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, depraved, diseased, dissolute, foul, gangrened, gangrenous, harmful, hot, impure, infected, injurious, insalubrious, insanitary, irradiated, morally polluted, morbid, morbific, mortified, noisome, nonkosher, noxious, pathogenic, pathological, peccant, perverted, pestiferous, poisoned, polluted, profligate, radiferous, radioactivated, radioactive, radioluminescent, reprobate, ritually unclean, rotten, septic, sphacelated, steeped in iniquity, tainted, tref, ulcerated, ulcerous, unbathed, unclean, uncleanly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unpure, unsanitary, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unwashed, unwholesome, unwiped, vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped |
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