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adj. - Making impure by touching or mixing.

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Usage examples (5)
  • Verb (used with object) : to contaminate a lake with sewage. ,to contaminate a laboratory
  • GMOs on the contrary are contaminative, unfriendly to our biodiversity, and pose a threat to the existence of our indigenous seeds, to organic farming systems, and to...
  • Shaha said GMOs threatened Kenya's environment as it was contaminative and unfriendly to bio diversity posing a threat to the existence of indigenous seeds, organic...
  • But "what's burning is on the surface, part of the contaminative substances has gone into bed deposits which are the last to burn."
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