Contaminate and Sanitize

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Contaminate

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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Sanitize is an antonym for contaminate in pollute topic.
Nearby Words: contamination, contaminating, contaminant

Sanitize

Sanitize verb - Make sanitary by cleaning or sterilizing.
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Contaminate is an antonym for sanitize.
Nearby Words: sanitise, sanity, sanitation, sanitised, sanitizing
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Common collocations

area contaminate area sanitize area
world contaminate world sanitize world
past contaminate past sanitize past
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