Usually means: Substances that pollute or taint.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. contaminates: Merriam-Webster
  2. contaminates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. contaminates: Vocabulary.com
  4. contaminates: Wordnik
  5. contaminates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. contaminates: Wiktionary
  7. contaminates: Dictionary.com
  8. contaminates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. contaminates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contaminates: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contaminates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contaminates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. contaminates: Medical dictionary

(Note: See contaminate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (contaminate)

verb:  (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
verb:  (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
verb:  (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
verb:  (transitive) To infect, usually of a deadly virus.
▸ Also see contaminate


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