If you don't wash your hand before working, you'll contaminate the samples.
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Contaminate
//kənˈtæmɪneɪt//
Synonyms for "contaminate" (170 found)
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11 entriesTranslations
35 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- μιαίνω verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- μολύνω verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Bulgarian
2 entries- замърсявам verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- извършвам зловредно вмешателство verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Catalan
1 entries- contaminar verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎧᏁᏌᏢᏍᎦ verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Czech
2 entries- kontaminovat verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- znečistit verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Danish
2 entries- forurene verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- kontaminere verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Esperanto
1 entries- kontaĝi verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Finnish
2 entries- pilata verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- saastuttaa verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
French
2 entries- contaminer verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- salir verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Galician
1 entries- contaminar verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
German
3 entries- kontaminieren verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- verseuchen verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- verunreinigen verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Irish
1 entries- truailligh verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Italian
1 entries- contaminare verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Latin
1 entries- contāminō verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Lithuanian
1 entries- užteršti verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Māori
3 entries- tāhawahawa verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- whakananu verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- whakaparu verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- kontaminere verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Polish
2 entries- skazić verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- zatruwać verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Portuguese
1 entries- contaminar verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Russian
2 entries- загрязни́ть verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
- загрязня́ть verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- truaill verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Swedish
1 entries- kontaminera verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Turkish
1 entries- kirletmek verb (To introduce impurities or foreign matter)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
I don't want to contaminate the clean glasses by taking them out of the dishwasher.
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Cars with heat engines contaminate a lot.
Source: tatoeba (9814487)
David Paige says it is important not to contaminate Mars with a microbe that could spread.
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