Antonyms for contamination
kənˌtæm əˈneɪ ʃəncon·tam·i·na·tion

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1. contamination, taintnoun

   the state of being contaminated

   Antonyms:
   decontamination

   Synonyms:
   taint, pollution, contaminant

2. contaminant, contaminationnoun

   a substance that contaminates

   Antonyms:
   decontamination

   Synonyms:
   taint, contaminant, pollution

3. contamination, pollutionnoun

   the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors

   Antonyms:
   decontamination

   Synonyms:
   defilement, taint, pollution, contaminant, befoulment

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1. contaminationnoun

   Synonyms:
   corruption, pollution, defilement, vitiation, taint, infection

How to use contamination in a sentence?

1. Jerry Guilbert:

   Before we send humans in to clear a building or check that critical infrastructure site for IED contamination, one of things that we'll do is bring these specially-trained mine detecting dogs up to sniff the perimeter, determine if there are explosives in that building and based on where the dogs may be indicating, find out where in the building perhaps do we think those explosive hazards are.

2. Mike Carroll:

   As has been reported, on Friday night a chemical spill occurred in Bristol Township, Bucks County which released contaminants into the Delaware River, the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) became aware of this through the Delaware Valley Early Warning System (EWS) and has been evaluating the situation since that time to understand potential impacts to the public. Although early indications have not revealed contamination, we are still monitoring the situation and conducting testing.

3. State Senator Raymond Lesniak:

   This miscarriage of justice will not stand, judge Hogan has denied the public its right to appeal the biggest environmental contamination case in the history of the state.

4. Tao te Ching, 48. Lao-Tzu:

   Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

5. David Cristobal Alvarez:

   But with the maritime currents and the air, the contamination has reached the Gulf of Mexico, it's started to affect people on the coasts of the states in the Gulf of Mexico.

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