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What does contaminate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word contaminate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To make something dangerous or toxic by introducing impurities or foreign matter.
  2. (transitive) To soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association.
  3. (transitive) To make unfit for use by the introduction of unwholesome or undesirable elements.
  4. To infect, often with bad objects
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The narcos burn the forest, plant a crop, contaminate the water, buy cattle, and cut down more trees for pasture.
Many types of viral and bacterial pathogens that grow in the gut of infected people may contaminate water and food.
Their snotty noses run, they put everything in their mouths, and they get secretions on their hands and contaminate whatever they touch.
Ms Lloyd said cacti could injure livestock and working dogs and contaminate wool.
Construction of drilled piles in unstable soil is difficult because soil can contaminate the pile.
Through this vuln an attacker who is able to compromise a CVS server can contaminate source-code repositories with Trojan code.

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