contaminating : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: contaminating	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for contaminating
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
contaminating adj spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" Synonym(s): dirty, contaminating Antonym(s): clean, uncontaminating that infects or taints Synonym(s): corrupting, contaminating
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contaminate \Contam"inate\ (k[ocr]nt[acr]m"[icr]n[amac]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contaminated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Contaminating}.] [L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See {Contact}.] To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes? --Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. --Goldsmith. Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt.