contaminate
verb (used with object)
to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc..
contaminator
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a word derived from
contaminate.
Example Sentences
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Nawaz, then, is somewhat like British Petroleum when it is tasked with cleaning up a catastrophic oil spill: His main qualification to do this kind of decontamination work is precisely his experience as a contaminator.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2017
We also learned that urban pollution is at the same time the pollution of the Earth, and that, other than the cities, there can be no other destroyer and contaminator of the Earth.
From Down with the Cities by Tadashi Nakashima
The contaminator is sure to be seized and confined till prudence, if not virtue, ties his tongue.
From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade
