Decontamination

Synonyms for "decontamination" (61 found)

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Closest matches (13)

Noun(5 words)
Verb(1 words)

Strong matches (18)

Noun(5 words)
detoxificationdisinfectingdisinfectionemergency cleansinghazard removal

Related words (30)

hygienemitigationnatural radioactivitynuclear radiationpalliationpalliativepasteurizationqualificationradiant energyradiationradioactive radiationradioactivityradiocarbon datingradiolucencyradiopacityradiosensibilityradiosensitivitysanitationsaturation pointsoftening
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Noun(5 words)
pollutant removalpollution cleanuppurgeremediationsterilizing

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

5 entries
emergency procedureenvironmental processprocessremotionremoval

More specific

10 entries
biological decontaminationbody decontaminationchemical decontaminationequipment decontaminationfacial decontaminationmass casualty decontaminationon site decontaminationradiological decontaminationsoil decontaminationwater decontamination

Collocations

6 entries
biological decontaminationchemical decontaminationdecontamination proceduredecontamination protocolradiological decontaminationsurface decontamination

Inflections

1 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Antonyms

1 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

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.

Source: tatoeba (932494)

The decontamination will involve testing and gathering affected soil and heating it to high temperature to burn off leftover dioxin.

Source: tatoeba (11847179)

Begin decontamination.

Source: tatoeba (11904704)

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