Synonyms for contamination

Grammar : Noun

Spell : kuh n-tam-uh-ney-shuh n

Phonetic Transcription : kənˌtæm əˈneɪ ʃən

Top 10 synonyms for contamination

Other synonyms for the word contamination

Définition 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

Antonyms for contamination

Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019