LekhoriLekhoriTo make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
This water is contaminated. It isn't safe to drink.
To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes?
To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
Do not contaminate the peanut butter with the jelly.
Contaminated.
And that this body conſecrate to thee, By Ruffian Luſt ſhould be contaminate!
Dirty, sinful, wicked, gross, etc.
First attested in the early 15ᵗʰ century, in Middle English; from Middle English contaminaten (“to defile; to infect with desease”), from contaminat(e) (“sullied, defiled; infected with desease”, also...
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