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containing foreign or lower-grade substances
- the hospitals had no choice but to throw out the contaminated blood supply
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contaminated
verb
past tense of contaminate
Synonyms & Antonyms of contaminated (Entry 2 of 2)
to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable
- a supply of drinking water that was contaminated by a toxic waste dump
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“Contaminated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/contaminated. Accessed 28 Oct. 2021.
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