verb [VN]
1 ~ sth (with sth) to make a substance or place dirty or no longer pure by adding a substance that is dangerous or carries disease:
The drinking water has become contaminated with lead. * contaminated blood / food / soil * a river contaminated by radioactivity / pollution
2 (formal) to influence people's ideas or attitudes in a bad way:
They were accused of contaminating the minds of our young people.
seealsoUNCONTAMINATED
contamination noun [U]:
radioactive contamination
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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