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/kənˈtæməˌneɪtɪŋ/
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[ UK /kəntˈæmɪnˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kəntˈæmɪnˌeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
the air near the foundry was always dirty
a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout - that infects or taints
How To Use contaminating In A Sentence
- Fueling boilers for power generation is one of the best ways of decontaminating garbage.
- Our initial focus was on biodiversity and food and farming issues, as well as bioremediation and natural treatment systems for decontaminating the environment.
- But there were many cloistered Christians who studied the bible undisturbed by these shadows and doubts, and who, heedless of patristical lore and saintly wisdom, devoured the spiritual food in its pure and uncontaminating simplicity -- such students, humble, patient, devoted, will be found crowding the monastic annals, and yielding good evidence of the same by the holy tenor of their sinless lives, their Christian charity and love. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
- The idea of bringing physical samples of Mars back to Earth has raised serious concerns about the possibility of contaminating the Earth's biosphere with an unknown Martian organism.
- The public airing of information gathered in a police investigation runs the real risk of contaminating that investigation.
- The write-only nature of CDs would also prevent any corruption on one from contaminating the other CDs.
- We are repeatedly told in the Torah that murderers - and certain other miscreants - should be put to death so that the community can be purged of their contaminating presence.
- They must be dismantled on an impermeable surface to avoid contaminating the ground.
- Another important toxin is botulinum, which is produced by bacteria contaminating certain foods.
- The development of sewage systems by Victorian engineers meant human effluent was discharged into the sea, contaminating many shellfish beds.