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Synonyms for contaminating
con·tam·i·nat·ing

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  1. 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, muddied

    Antonyms:
    noninfectious

  2. corrupting, contaminatingadjective

    that infects or taints

    Synonyms:
    degrading, corrupting, dirty

    Antonyms:
    noninfectious

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "contaminating":

    contamination, contaminant, polluting

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#9481contamination
#9718foul
#18321muddy
#19359filthy
#22837contaminant
#24941lousy
#26371degrading
#35691soiled
#35878polluting
#37000unclean
#47520sordid
#55825corrupting
#58167contaminating
#58318dingy
#104208unsportsmanlike
#135003muddied
#190598unsporting

How to use contaminating in a sentence?

  1. Leonel Mingo:

    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.

  2. Karine Raymond:

    We are the be all and end all and lifeline to these patients, and yet we are being contaminated and cross contaminating.

  3. Farrokh Sekaleshfar:

    Out of compassion, let’s get rid of him now, because he’s contaminating society.

  4. Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser:

    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.

  5. Judith Enck:

    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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