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Definition of Contaminates
1. contaminate [v] - See also: contaminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contaminates
Literary usage of Contaminates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Consideration of the Sermon on the Mount by Daniel Harvey Hill (1858)
"Its touch defiles and contaminates whatever is clean and pure. It was made to be
trodden under foot of him, who was formed in the image of God. ..."
2. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"WAR contaminates. Em. War is always prejudicial to the interests of piety and
virtue. ... contaminates."
3. Ures̓ Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear by Andrew Ure (1860)
"... flavour of acetic ether, and never become tainted by the formation of that
noxious product aldehyde, which so frequently contaminates ill-made vinegar. ..."
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