'Contaminating' definitions:
Definition of 'contaminating'
From: WordNet
adjective
Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant: clean, uncontaminating]
adjective
That infects or taints [syn: corrupting, contaminating]
Definition of 'Contaminating'
From: GCIDE
- Contaminate \Con*tam"i*nate\ (k[o^]n*t[a^]m"[i^]*n[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contaminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Contaminating.] [L. contaminatus, p. p. of contaminare to bring into contact, to contaminate, fr. contamen contagion, for contagmen; con- + root of tangere to touch. See Contact.] To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. [1913 Webster]
- Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. --Goldsmith.
- Syn: To pollute; defile; sully; taint; tarnish; soil; stain; corrupt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'contaminating'
From: GCIDE
- contaminating \contaminating\ adj. spreading contamination; especially radioactive contamination. clean
- Syn: dirty. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. causing moral or behavioral degredation. the contaminating influence of violent movies
- Syn: corrupting. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]