Synonyms for decontaminate
ˌdi kənˈtæm əˌneɪtde·con·tam·i·nate

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1. decontaminateverb

   rid of contamination

   "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city"

   Antonyms:
   contaminate

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1. Jessica Ilunga:

   It means at times they don't change gloves or don't use single-use ones or simply they don't use gloves at all, they don't sterilize their equipment, and they don't decontaminate beds, and they don't change sheets.

2. John Allen:

   They really went to extremes, but they still couldn't decontaminate the scope, and they finally had to just destroy it.

3. Suzanne Schwartz:

   The ability to decontaminate was purely a last resort, an extreme measure, from the FDA’s perspective, there is a need for us to move back towards contingency and conventional strategies, which is, you use the respirator for the interaction, and then you dispose of it and get a new one. We are in unison, in sync, with both NIOSH and OSHA in that position.

4. Caroline Washaya-Moyo:

   We need to go quickly and decontaminate the area, the rainy season is coming, so we need to move with speed.

5. Mark Ghilarducci:

   We proved that we could reuse these masks, basically decontaminate them for reuse up to 20 times with no degradation.