contaminate
Example Sentences
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Groundwater in these communities is contaminated with salt and naturally occurring radioactive elements.
From Salon
"The tap water in our house is still contaminated and it stinks," she says.
From BBC
The inspectors also reported crews spraying contaminated pool water onto neighboring properties and into storm drains, and excavator operators using toothed buckets that caused clean and contaminated soil to be commingled.
From Los Angeles Times
Particles emitted from a fusion plasma will erode the reactor wall, contaminating the plasma and rendering most known materials brittle and porous within months.
Counterfeit and contaminated products could be crushed by a forklift or incinerated.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
