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contaminated

  • past participle
    of contaminate.
    contaminate
    verb (used with object)
    to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc..
  • past tense form
    of contaminate.
    contaminate
    verb (used with object)
    to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc..

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After our office was cleared, we were all sent home, only to be told to return the next day to drop off our contaminated clothes in trash bags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

Yuan said she’d dealt with years of chronic health issues and believed her dad’s death last September was due to some of the contaminated water he ingested.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

He called for significant changes to monitoring and management of the contaminated sites that were "just a stone's throw" from the Ty Mawr Country Park.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Soviet officials initially said the illnesses were the result of contaminated meat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

But there was ample reason to suspect the seeds on which McCandless dined during the last two weeks of July may have been contaminated with R. leguminicola.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer