contaminate
verb (used with object)
to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc..
am contaminating
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present progressiveof contaminate (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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There have been times when I've had to reuse items and I worried that in the act of taking off a possibly contaminated item and putting it back on I am contaminating myself.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2020
