contaminate

Speech parts

1. contaminate - Adjective

2. contaminate - Verb

Meaning

To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.

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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam. Abu Bakar Bashir

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie, never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers. Charlie Sheen

A man who is free is like a mangy sheep in a herd. He will contaminate my entire kingdom and ruin my work. Jean-Paul Sartre

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. Cyril Connolly

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous. Emily Brontë

If you continue to contaminate your own home. Native American Proverb

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