CONTAMINATE

v. a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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.

2.
a.

Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted. "Contaminate drink." Daniel.