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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contaminate.

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Examples

  • Oh, and the idea that Mexican's seem more immune to the local food contaminates is only partially accurate.

    Treating Veggies and Fruit 2005

  • "The extraction of the contaminates will be a very aggressive way to remediate and clean up the area using a technique involving an underground pipe system connected to machinery in the trailer and then discharged a sewer connection," he said as he walked around the area following the meeting.

    ClearysNoteBook 2009

  • It is talking only about the virulently right wing political/religious force which "contaminates" Israel, just as much as our psychopathic murderers in the name of God contaminate our Constitutional Republic (at least what is left of it).

    The second most repressed atrocity in America 2008

  • The decision to outlaw the drug 'meow meow' 'contaminates' science says the medical journal

    The First Post: Latest 2010

  • You know, I haven't seen it phrased quite this way, but there seems to be a major theme running just under the surface of a whole lot of woo, and it's the idea of pollution, as though somehow the modern world somehow "contaminates" our very essence, making us ill and unhealthy.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

  • The state Environment Ministry fears that when it rains, the pool overflows and contaminates groundwater.

    Looming challenge for southern Sudan: Regulating oil companies Rebecca Hamilton 2011

  • Giardia contaminates streams and lakes throughout North America and has caused epidemics of diarrheal disease in several small cities by contaminating their drinking water.

    Intestinal Parasites May Be Causing Your Energy Slump M.D. Leo Galland 2011

  • Ocean currents carry contaminates to every part of the globe.

    Dead animals: The Google Maps edition Melissa Bell 2011

  • The state Environment Ministry fears that when it rains, the pool overflows and contaminates groundwater.

    Looming challenge for southern Sudan: Regulating oil companies Rebecca Hamilton 2011

  • The state Environment Ministry fears that when it rains, the pool overflows and contaminates groundwater.

    Looming challenge for southern Sudan: Regulating oil companies Rebecca Hamilton 2011

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