Sentences with contaminate
con·tam·i·nate
C c - Have any fish been contaminated in the Arctic Ocean? [be VERB-ed]
- Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly. This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink.
- By including these items you can contaminate the rest of the collection.
- Officials have ordered a halt to shrimp harvesting in waters off Louisiana with oil from a massive Gulf of Mexico spill expected to contaminate the fishing.
- To contaminate a lake with sewage.
- To contaminate a laboratory.
- Bags contaminate kerbside recycling, can hang around for up to 1000 years, and cause problems for landfill.
- But Greens upper house MP Greg Barber said GM canola could contaminate nearby crops and genetic traits, such as herbicide resistance.
- Gm opponents fear that it will contaminate non-GM crops through wind or insect pollination.
- Contaminate means to make impure, unclean, or unfit for use through contact or addition [fumes were contaminating the air]; taint emphasizes effect over cause and implies that some measure of decay or corruption has taken place [tainted food]; pollute implies complete befoulment, decay, or corruption through contamination; , defile1 implies pollution or desecration of that which should be held sacred