different between disgust vs contaminate

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French desgouster, from Old French desgouster (“to put off one's appetite”), from des- (“dis-”) + gouster, goster (“to taste”), from Latin gustus (“a tasting”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: d?s-g?st?
• IPA^(key): /d?s???st/, [d?s?k?st]
• Rhymes: -?st
• Hyphenation: dis?gust
• Homophone: discussed

Verb

disgust (third-person singular simple present disgusts, present participle disgusting, simple past and past participle disgusted)

1. To cause an intense dislike for something.
   • 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life Chapter V

     It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust.

Translations

Noun

disgust (uncountable)

1. An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

   With an air of disgust, she stormed out of the room.

Translations

Further reading

• disgust in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• disgust in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• disgust at OneLook Dictionary Search

Catalan

Etymology

dis- +? gust

Noun

disgust m (plural disgusts or disgustos)

1. displeasure

   Antonym: plaer

Derived terms

• disgustar

Further reading

• “disgust” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “disgust” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “disgust” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “disgust” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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)

1. (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.

2. (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
   • I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated.
3. (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.

4. 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

1. second-person plural present of contaminare
2. second-person plural imperative of contaminare
3. feminine plural past participle of contaminare

Latin

Verb

cont?min?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cont?min?