different between contaminable vs contaminate
contaminable
English
Etymology
From Latin cont?min?bilis
Adjective
contaminable (comparative more contaminable, superlative most contaminable)
- Capable of being contaminated.
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contaminate
English
Etymology
From Old French contaminer, from Latin contaminare (“to touch together, blend, mingle, corrupt, defile”), from contamen (“contact, defilement, contagion”), related to tangere.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?tæm?ne?t/
Verb
contaminate (third-person singular simple present contaminates, present participle contaminating, simple past and past participle contaminated)
- (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
- (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
- I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated.
- (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
- To infect, often with bad objects
Related terms
- contaminable
- contamination
- contaminative
Translations
Further reading
- contaminate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- contaminate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- contaminate at OneLook Dictionary Search
Italian
Verb
contaminate
- second-person plural present of contaminare
- second-person plural imperative of contaminare
- feminine plural past participle of contaminare
Latin
Verb
cont?min?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of cont?min?
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