contaminate

Meaning

Verb

  • To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
  • To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
  • To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
  • To infect, often with bad objects

Origin

  • From Old French contaminer, from Latin contaminare, from contamen, related to tangere.

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