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CONTAMINATING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
Example:
a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout
Synonyms:
contaminating; dirty
Classified under:
Sense 2
Meaning:
That infects or taints
Synonyms:
contaminating; corrupting
Classified under:
Similar:
infectious (easily spread)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb contaminate
