Decontamination

noun

noun ·6 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The process of removing contamination, particularly the cleaning off of dangerous materials.
  2. 2
    the removal of contaminants wordnet

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activityallowanceantisepsisartificial radioactivitycolorcontamination

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"Globalization has gone mad: why transport Spanish cucumbers to exterminate the Northern Germans when half of them live in Mallorca? We need to rationalize all of that and adopt a more solid method of bacterial decontamination."

Etymology

From de- + contamination.

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