Contaminate and Cleanse

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Contaminate verb - To make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable.

Usage example: a supply of drinking water that was contaminated by a toxic waste dump

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Cleanse is an antonym for contaminate in topics: pollute, adulterate.

Cleanse verb - To free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially.

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Contaminate is an antonym for cleanse.

people	contaminate people	cleanse people
area	contaminate area	cleanse area
land	contaminate land	cleanse land
system	contaminate system	cleanse system
Other words: world, wound, water, planet, town, everyone.

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