Contaminate and Devalue

Contaminate

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

Devalue and contaminate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Devalue" instead a verb "Contaminate".

Devalue

Devalue verb - To diminish the price or value of.

Contaminate and devalue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Contaminate" instead a verb "Devalue".

Common collocations

gold contaminate gold devalue gold
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