Usually means: Mixing substances that should stay separate.
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  1. cross-contaminate: Merriam-Webster
  2. cross-contaminate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cross-contaminate: Wordnik
  4. cross-contaminate: Wiktionary
  5. cross-contaminate: Dictionary.com

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  1. cross-contaminate: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cross-contaminate)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To transfer a contaminant from one source to another.

Similar:
crosscontaminate, recontaminate, cotransmit, cotransfer, cross-fertilize, cross-pollinate, cotransfect, cotranslocate, transduce, contransfect, more...

Opposite:
segregate, separate, isolate

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Similar:
crosscontaminate, recontaminate, cotransmit, cotransfer, cross-fertilize, cross-pollinate, cotransfect, cotranslocate, transduce, contransfect, more...

Opposite:
segregate, separate, isolate



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