contaminate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
make impure
The industrial wastes polluted the lake
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- contamination derivation
- polluter derivation
- contamination derivation
- befoulment derivation
- pollution derivation
- contaminant derivation
- pollutant derivation
- contaminative derivation
Sense 2 verb
make radioactive by adding radioactive material
Don't drink the water--it's contaminated
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- decontaminate antonym
- contamination derivation
- contamination derivation
- contaminant derivation
- contaminative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contamination |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | polluter |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contamination |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | befoulment |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pollution |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contaminant |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | pollutant |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | contaminative |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | soil |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | taint |
| 2 | antonym | Related & opposite | decontaminate |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contamination |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contamination |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contaminant |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | contaminative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |