contamination
/kənˌtæmɪˈneɪʃən/
noun
- The act or process of making something dirty, impure, or harmful by adding a substance that should not be there.
- The contamination of the river by industrial waste killed all the fish.
- After the oil spill, the contamination of the beach took months to clean up.
- The lab tested the water for bacterial contamination before declaring it safe to drink.
- The presence of a harmful or unwanted substance in something, such as food, water, or air.
- The food recall was due to contamination with salmonella.
- Air contamination from the factory caused health problems in the nearby town.
- They checked the soil for contamination before building the playground.
- The process of making something less pure or corrupting it, especially in a moral or intellectual sense.
- The contamination of the data with errors made the study unreliable.
- He worried about the contamination of his values by the negative influences around him.
- The contamination of the original text by later editors changed its meaning.
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