Word Meanings - CONTAMINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith. Syn. -- To

Additional info about word: CONTAMINATE

To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith. Syn. -- To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt. (more info) into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen;

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTAMINATE)

• Adulterate
• Debase
• corrupt
• deteriorate
• vitiate
• contaminate
• Corrupt Spoil
• impair
• putrefy
• demoralize
• debase
• defile
• pollute
• deprave
• Pollute
• Befoul
• taint
• poison
• tarnish
• stain
• soil
• Soil
• Stain
• begrime
• befoul
• Taint
• Imbue
• impregnate
• infect
• sully
• blot
• disgrace
• dishonor

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CONTAMINATE)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better
• Purify
• wash
• absolve
• ornament
• decorate
• emblazon
• signalize
• honor

Related words: (words related to CONTAMINATE)

• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• IMPAIRMENT
  The state of being impaired; injury. "The impairment of my health." Dryden.
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• POLLUTE
  To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
• DEBASED
  Turned upside down from its proper position; inverted; reversed.
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• EMBLAZONING
  The act or art of heraldic decoration; delineation of armorial bearings.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.