Contaminate
[kən'tæmɪneɪt] or [kən'tæmɪnet]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) make radioactive by adding radioactive material; 'Don't drink the water--it's contaminated'.
艾弗里校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.
(a.) Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.
恩里科整理
同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. Defile, pollute, corrupt, taint, infect, poison, vitiate, sully, tarnish, soil, stain.
克林顿編輯
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Defile, taint, corrupt, sully, befoul, {[soi']?}
ANT:Purify, cleanse, lave, clarify, sanctify, chasten
吉莉安手打
解釋/意思:
v.t. to defile by touching or mixing with: to pollute: to corrupt: to infect.—adj. Contam′inable.—n. Contaminā′tion pollution.—adj. Contam′inative.
赛勒斯錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The impure liquid will thus contaminate the otherwise pure water and will render it decidedly harmful. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Mrs. Peniston felt as if there had been a contagious illness in the house, and she was doomed to sit shivering among her contaminated furniture. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Showing how drinking water can be contaminated from cesspool _(c)_ and wash water _(w)_. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The sewage disposal is often inadequate and badly planned, and the water becomes dangerously contaminated. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- The results were seen to be made use of by the mechanical artist, and the abstract pr inciples were therefore supposed to be, as it were, contaminated by his touch. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Streams which flow through populated regions are apt to be contaminated, and hence water from them requires public filtration. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
奥古斯汀錄入