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Definition of Contaminating
1. Adjective. Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination. "A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"
2. Adjective. That infects or taints.
Definition of Contaminating
1. Verb. (present participle of contaminate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contaminating
1. contaminate [v] - See also: contaminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contaminating
Literary usage of Contaminating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western Territory by Jacob Burnet (1847)
"Character of the North-western Indians.—Misrepresentations refuted.—Their
intercourse with the white people.—Its contaminating influence.—Their degeneracy. ..."
2. The Standard Index of Short Stories, 1900-1914 by Francis James Hannigan (1918)
"Amer 77:50 My contaminating of Augustus. GM Cooke and '14 Contract. JD Bacon.
.... contaminating ..."
3. Aluminium: Its History, Occurrence, Properties, Metallurgy and Applications by Joseph William Richards (1890)
"This last remark as to the proportion of chloride required to form the metal will
show the absolute necessity there is to keep iron from contaminating the ..."
4. Report of the Trial of James H. Peck, Judge of the United States District by James Hawkins Peck, Arthur Joseph Stansbury, United States Congress. Senate (1833)
"He tells us, that to preserve the interest of the government, and the dignity
and purity of the court from the pec- lations and contaminating influence of ..."
5. The Law of Operations Preliminary to Construction in Engineering and by John Cassan Wait (1900)
"Fouling or contaminating the Land of Adjoining Owners.—The landowner is liable
if he permits sewage from his house to flow into the well of a neighbor.3 In ..."
6. Life of Charles Bradlaugh, M.P. by Charles R. Mackay (1888)
"... wherein the "Fruits" is styled an Indecent, Lewd, filthy, Bawdy, and Obscene
Boot ; contaminating, vitiating, and corrupting the Morals of Youth, etc., ..."
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