What is another word for contaminating?
Synonyms for contaminating
con·tam·i·nat·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
dirty, contaminatingadjective
spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
"the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"
Synonyms:
soiled, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, lousy, corrupting, dingy, filthy, cheating(a), unclean, pestiferous, marked-up, ill-gotten, foul, sordid, dirty, muddy, muddiedAntonyms:
noninfectiouscorrupting, contaminatingadjective
that infects or taints
Synonyms:
degrading, corrupting, dirtyAntonyms:
noninfectious
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "contaminating":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#4328 | dirty | |
#9481 | contamination | |
#9718 | foul | |
#18321 | muddy | |
#19359 | filthy | |
#22837 | contaminant | |
#24941 | lousy | |
#26371 | degrading | |
#35691 | soiled | |
#35878 | polluting | |
#37000 | unclean | |
#47520 | sordid | |
#55825 | corrupting | |
#58167 | contaminating | |
#58318 | dingy | |
#104208 | unsportsmanlike | |
#135003 | muddied | |
#190598 | unsporting |
How to use contaminating in a sentence?
We hope the oil companies will stop contaminating the Patagonian ecosystem with toxic waste and will close this dump that violates provincial and national laws.
We are the be all and end all and lifeline to these patients, and yet we are being contaminated and cross contaminating.
Out of compassion, let’s get rid of him now, because he’s contaminating society.
The biggest concern that I have is making sure I keep Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser safe and healthy, that I'm not contaminating my home or exposing my family to what I have to be exposed to because I'm out doing essential work.
The plastics and petrochemical industries are making it impossible to curb the amount of plastic contaminating our oceans, new research is always helpful, but we don’t need to wait for new research to take action — the problem is already painfully clear, in the plastic accumulating in our oceans, air, soil, food, and bodies.
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