contaminate
verb (used with object)
to make impure or unsuitable by contact or mixture with something unclean, bad, etc..
is contaminating
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present progressiveof contaminate (3rd 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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“This easy change eliminates plastic bags from the point of sale and helps California significantly reduce the plastic waste that is contaminating our environment and waters.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2024
"This is a huge ecological catastrophe," Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko told the BBC, adding that more than 150 tonnes of engine oil from the dam near the town of Nova Kakhovka is contaminating the water.
From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2023
Almost every coal-fired power plant in the US is contaminating groundwater with unsafe levels of toxic pollution, according to the first comprehensive analysis of the consequences of coal ash waste disposal.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 4, 2019
Thirty years later, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency knows more - construction debris is contaminating groundwater at landfills around the state.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 12, 2018
Little by little it begins to dawn upon him that something of the Old-World hypocrisy, fraud and insincerity, is contaminating this supposedly virgin territory.
From Brazilian Tales by Isaac Goldberg
