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Contaminating

adjective

Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination. Synonym: dirty. "A dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"

That infects or taints. Synonym: corrupting.

Contaminate

verb

(past & past part. contaminated; pres. part. contaminating)

Make impure. Synonyms: foul, pollute.

Make radioactive by adding radioactive material.

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"Contaminating" Quotes from Famous Books

... hallway one of the loungers who had witnessed the recent scene at the hotel. After a second's stare the man passed on down to the shabby-genteel parlor, and soon whist, novels, and papers were dropped, as the immaculate little community learned of the contaminating presence beneath the ...

— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe

... does Agnes avoid her? She stiffens herself up and curls her lips when the girl goes by, as if there was something contaminating about her; and one night when we were in the music-room and Miss Smith was playing and singing 'Mrs. Brady' for us, Agnes came in with Amy and made a great fuss and noise, disturbing everybody in pretending to ...

— A Flock of Girls and Boys • Nora Perry

... turns through the streets of your capital, and observe those whom he shall meet, and he will be perfectly satisfied. Amalgamation, indeed! The charge is made with a very bad grace on the present occasion. No, sir; it is not the negro woman, it is the slave and the contaminating influence of slavery that is the mother of amalgamation. Does the gentleman want facts on this subject? let him look at the colored race in the free States; it is a rare occurrence there. A colony of blacks, some three or four hundred, ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

... malignant type broke out in the common gaol. The place was dirty enough before, and the horrors of that abode were indescribable even when sickness did not prevail; but when about 150 men of all ranks lay prostrate on the ground, contaminating still more the already impure atmosphere, the scene was horrible in the extreme, giving a better idea of the place of torments than even Dante's vivid description. The epidemic lasted until the first rains set in. About eighty died; and many more ...

— A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia - With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, - His Country and People • Henry Blanc

... "Well-named!—dirty, smeary, contaminating business," said Croyden. "And the best 'greasers' have the best places, I reckon. I prefer the unadorned garb of the civilian—and independence. I'll permit those fellows to fight the battles and draw the rewards—they can do both ...

— In Her Own Right • John Reed Scott

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