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Antonyms for contamination


Grammar : Noun
Spell : kuh n-tam-uh-ney-shuh n
Phonetic Transcription : kənˌtæm əˈneɪ ʃən



Definition of contamination

Origin :
  • early 15c., from Latin contaminationem (nominative contaminatio), noun of action from past participle stem of contaminare (see contaminate). Figurative sense is from c.1620; specifically of radioactivity from 1913.
  • noun adulteration
Example sentences :
  • He shrank away as if there had been contamination in my touch.
  • Extract from : « The Tenant of Wildfell Hall » by Anne Bronte
  • I am sorry because I believe there is contamination in such a scoundrel.
  • Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
  • At all events she would be spared the contamination of the factory.
  • Extract from : « The Downfall » by Emile Zola
  • Put up a forest of props (as at the Abbey) and keep off touch and contamination?
  • Extract from : « The Christian » by Hall Caine
  • Shall I stop the carriage and remove the contamination of my disgusting person?
  • Extract from : « Scaramouche » by Rafael Sabatini
  • Who is to say what such a nature might not have been, if spared the contamination of such a husband?'
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. » by Charles James Lever
  • Would he be able to escape the contamination of this island?
  • Extract from : « The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy » by Florence Partello Stuart
  • Indeed, the chances of corruption and contamination are infinite.
  • Extract from : « Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance » by Various
  • How could it escape the contamination that has smirched every other art?
  • Extract from : « On the Vice of Novel Reading. » by Young E. Allison
  • Contamination of the soil, ground water, and air by percolation of sewage.
  • Extract from : « The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) » by Various

Synonyms for contamination

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