contaminated
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
contaminate/kənˈtamɪneɪt/
▶verb make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance.
– derivatives
contaminant noun,
contamination noun,
contaminator noun.
contaminant noun,
contamination noun,
contaminator noun.
– origin ME: from L. contaminat-, contaminare ‘make impure’, from contamen ‘contact, pollution’, from con- ‘together with’ + the base of tangere ‘to touch’.
'contaminated' also found in these Oxford entries:
flyblown
- foul
- impure
- listeria
- taint
- uncontaminated
- unpolluted
- untainted
- Weil's disease
