contaminate
verb · adjectiveB2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Động từ
verb- 1.
(transitive)To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink.
Đồng nghĩa: poison, pollute, taint
- 2.
(transitive)To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
Đồng nghĩa: defile, pollute, sully, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle, adulterate, corrupt, debauch, demoralize, detort, file, immoralize, lead astray, pervert, pollute, preposterate, seduce, sophisticate, suborn, subvert, tamper, unmoralize, vitiate, warp
- 3.
(transitive)To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
Đồng nghĩa: mar, mess up, ruin, ball up, blight, bumble, botch, bugger up, bungle, contaminate, corrupt, crab, deprave, disrupt, disturb, foil, fuck up, jack up, mar, mess up, mishandle, mommick, pollute, put a crimp in, queer, ruin, screw up, soil, sour, spoil, stain, undo, upset, turn upside down, upset the applecart, vitiate
- 4.
(transitive)To infect, usually of a deadly virus.
Đồng nghĩa: disease, leper
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(obsolete)(used as a participle) Contaminated.
- 2.
(figuratively, obsolete)Dirty, sinful, wicked, gross, etc.
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ine-pro early 15th century, in Middle English; from Middle English contaminaten (to defile; to infect with desease), from contaminat + -en, from Latin contāminātus, the perfect passive participle of contāminō (to touch together, blend, mingle, corrupt, defile) (see -ate), which see for further informations. More at taste, tax, and taxi.