What is another word for contamination?
Pronunciation:
[ kəntˌamɪnˈe͡ɪʃən], [ kəntˌamɪnˈeɪʃən], [ k_ə_n_t_ˌa_m_ɪ_n_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]
Related words: ground contamination, water contamination, soil contamination, soil pollution, water pollution, air pollution, water pollution effects
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Similar words for contamination:
- act (noun)
- adulteration (noun)
- blight (noun)
- contagion (noun)
- damage (noun)
- defilement (noun)
- depravity (noun)
- dirtiness (noun)
- disease (noun)
- filth (noun)
- impurity (noun)
- injury, loss (noun)
- noise pollution (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- poison (noun)
- toxin (noun)
- unhealthiness (noun)
- unwholesomeness (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Contamination:
n.
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- carbon.
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- aggravation,
- clean.
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- impurity,
- the carbon cycle,
- carbon trading,
- biological control,
- biohazard,
- clean up,
- catalytic converter,
- biodegradable,
- carbon-neutral,
- carbon sink.
- dirtying,
- foulness,
- taint,
- infection,
- pestilence,
- rottenness,
- corruption,
- plague,
- radioactivation,
- spoliation,
- poisoning,
- epidemic,
- Debauchment.
- inflammation,
- up set,
- pathosis,
- visitation,
- unhealthiness,
- infirmity,
- ill health,
- flu,
- Sickliness,
- endemics.
- disease,
- sensuality,
- infestation,
- noxious substance,
- poison,
- Toxins,
- criminality,
- impureness,
- depravity,
- fungus,
- poisonous substance,
- Funguses,
- toxin,
- uncleanliness,
- criminalities,
- adulteration,
- contagion,
- pollution,
- blot on the landscape,
- dirtiness,
- witherings,
- filth,
- infestations,
- noise pollution,
- depravations,
- contaminant,
- fungi,
- vitiation,
- Depravation,
- blot on landscape,
- sinfulness,
- defilement,
- noxious substances,
- blight,
- damage.
Other synonyms:
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- degradation,
- greenhouse gas,
- chlorofluorocarbon,
- sulfur dioxide,
- runoff,
- oil slick,
- lapse,
- acid rain,
- fluorocarbon,
- smokestack industry,
- emission,
- descent,
- pollutant,
- adulterator,
- toxic waste,
- contaminator,
- decay,
- cfc,
- effluent,
- rot,
- adulterant,
- carbon emissions,
- regression,
- perversion,
- PARTICULATES,
- carbon dioxide,
- Hazardous Waste.
- give way,
- influenza,
- collapse,
- adulterating,
- usurpation,
- exhaust fumes,
- declivity,
- deadening,
- whacking,
- cut,
- provoke,
- kick the bucket,
- slur,
- influence,
- use up,
- wash up,
- beset,
- snuff it,
- obscenity,
- strip,
- corporeal,
- muddied,
- profane,
- clean house,
- give-up the ghost,
- loan-blend,
- natural action,
- overload,
- elapse,
- thrashing,
- relapse,
- demean,
- founder,
- combine,
- depredation,
- expire,
- harlotry,
- patten,
- expel,
- exhaust system,
- overflow,
- noisomeness,
- greenhouse emission,
- side effect,
- fall,
- form,
- brand,
- stinkiness,
- forge,
- scandal,
- strangle,
- bodily process,
- crap,
- atomic number 6,
- problematic,
- choke coil,
- die,
- sear,
- keen,
- disintegration,
- lace,
- ravish,
- slip away,
- uninfected,
- glide by,
- irritation,
- dross,
- glut,
- sully,
- tell apart,
- trouncing,
- slander,
- despoilment,
- put down,
- metal,
- problematical,
- exasperation,
- overgorge,
- black,
- neaten,
- newsboy,
- pig out,
- ill-usage,
- descry,
- melanize,
- hurt,
- colly,
- engorge,
- unsportsmanlike,
- puddle,
- pedigree,
- unclouded,
- cloud,
- ill-gotten,
- blend in,
- scandalize,
- trauma,
- dirty word,
- line,
- calumniate,
- sportsmanlike,
- pest,
- common carrier,
- defacement,
- maltreat,
- consume,
- exacerbation,
- blob,
- newspaper clipping,
- regression toward the mean,
- clog dancing,
- loathing,
- frailty,
- play out,
- tearing,
- gormandise,
- contumely,
- badmouth,
- scandalisation,
- debility,
- blood line,
- place,
- shite,
- raw,
- feces,
- situation,
- molest,
- hogwash,
- lacrimation,
- stigma,
- indignation,
- ignominy,
- corrupt,
- lay waste to,
- carrier wave,
- clipping,
- downslope,
- model,
- maculation,
- poppycock,
- ichor,
- spoil,
- expelling,
- malady,
- raise,
- pestis,
- encroachment,
- disintegrate,
- retroversion,
- origin,
- red ink,
- clog dance,
- eat,
- uncontaminating,
- sanies,
- ungraded,
- reek,
- harry,
- blackguard,
- stabbing,
- clobber,
- determine,
- fixation,
- lancinate,
- soiled,
- clean and jerk,
- declension,
- break,
- tarnish,
- feebleness,
- flaw,
- fervor,
- transmission,
- contaminating,
- departure,
- stool,
- lousy,
- line of descent,
- provocation,
- poop,
- cutting off,
- throttle,
- bunk,
- fabric,
- flattop,
- intoxication,
- malignance,
- run down,
- soot,
- sporting,
- evil,
- interbreeding,
- smut fungus,
- carbon black,
- offend,
- excitement,
- red,
- fresh,
- turpitude,
- rubor,
- elusive,
- bm,
- porn,
- hybridisation,
- cleanse,
- grease,
- fleck,
- crossbreed,
- melanise,
- position,
- lachrymation,
- smuttiness,
- bemire,
- firing,
- corruptness,
- pus,
- hybridizing,
- immune carrier,
- wound,
- trespass,
- flux,
- houseclean,
- licking,
- fairly,
- discolouration,
- carbon copy,
- give,
- malodorousness,
- porno,
- point,
- fair,
- morbidness,
- clay sculpture,
- stemma,
- insalubriousness,
- infract,
- chivvy,
- deface,
- spoilation,
- tough,
- immingle,
- sophism,
- smirch,
- ill-treatment,
- infantile fixation,
- prove,
- daub,
- health problem,
- mistreat,
- defame,
- infringement,
- discern,
- retrogress,
- knotty,
- disablement,
- pick out,
- misdemeanour,
- discredit,
- abhorrence,
- degrade,
- merge,
- transgress,
- radiation,
- scandalization,
- radioactive decay,
- clear,
- mephitis,
- mailman,
- criminalness,
- natural process,
- crumble,
- decompose,
- malodor,
- kindling,
- bit,
- malignity,
- aircraft carrier,
- straighten,
- lineage,
- oxidisation,
- fumes,
- grime,
- tackiness,
- bloodline,
- oracular,
- rankness,
- knifelike,
- chevy,
- sensualism,
- putridness,
- ignition,
- take down,
- fervour,
- blood,
- lug,
- grippe,
- asperse,
- espy,
- filthiness,
- purulence,
- suppuration,
- decease,
- piercing,
- geta,
- overspill,
- oversight,
- stamp,
- extraction,
- shoddy,
- dishonor,
- slip,
- molding,
- combat injury,
- execration,
- anatoxin,
- hybridization,
- white,
- filiation,
- subversion,
- satiate,
- smear,
- recognize,
- regress,
- plunder,
- blasphemy,
- slip by,
- attack aircraft carrier,
- expiration,
- stinging,
- muddle,
- choking coil,
- degeneracy,
- price,
- body process,
- sabot,
- thrust,
- activeness,
- mix,
- hooey,
- suffocate,
- turd,
- harass,
- reversion,
- release,
- injuriousness,
- mark,
- sink,
- dilapidate,
- arrested development,
- toxicant,
- infraction,
- blank,
- support,
- emanation,
- reverting,
- filthy,
- passing,
- sexual perversion,
- shame,
- make clean,
- faeces,
- intermingle,
- moulder,
- computer virus,
- half life,
- appal,
- binge,
- stink,
- regulate,
- discharge,
- nastiness,
- work,
- kingdom fungi,
- asphyxiate,
- shit,
- worldliness,
- textile,
- inflaming,
- back,
- fault,
- pass,
- toter,
- illness,
- patch,
- go,
- intrusion,
- ill-treat,
- modeling,
- cheapness,
- fungus kingdom,
- desolate,
- cash in one's chips,
- real,
- rotting,
- back down,
- eat up,
- fret,
- choke down,
- accidental injury,
- loanblend,
- acid precipitation,
- lapsing,
- harm,
- lethality,
- detestation,
- moldiness,
- light,
- tribulation,
- radioactive dust,
- marked-up,
- parentage,
- miscegenation,
- bearer,
- spy,
- bunkum,
- redness,
- slide by,
- cross,
- frailness,
- pop off,
- billet,
- moulding,
- spatter,
- eject,
- carbon paper,
- action,
- stifle,
- dishonour,
- gourmandize,
- press clipping,
- foetor,
- malefic,
- carving,
- overeat,
- tucker,
- edged,
- muddy,
- unwellness,
- declination,
- shock,
- beat,
- whoredom,
- shape,
- pip,
- substantial,
- sap,
- ill-use,
- recognise,
- back off,
- equipment casualty,
- perniciousness,
- squeeze,
- film editing,
- erotica,
- sensualness,
- rape,
- traduce,
- biological agent,
- office,
- constipate,
- malevolent,
- scorch,
- chevvy,
- sewer water,
- outflowing,
- deplete,
- go along,
- insult,
- drop dead,
- mould,
- pick,
- shortcoming,
- go against,
- clot,
- tidy up,
- breakdown,
- char,
- statistical regression,
- postman,
- toxic condition,
- scandalise,
- commingle,
- deconsecrate,
- envenom,
- mar,
- despoilation,
- buncombe,
- sophistry,
- edification,
- hassle,
- abjection,
- shout,
- misdemeanor,
- subsidence,
- choke up,
- grunge,
- maculate,
- assault,
- make out,
- topographic point,
- clapperclaw,
- pervert,
- guff,
- sordid,
- touch,
- gorge,
- wickedness,
- plum,
- vulgarism,
- unclean,
- vilification,
- intercrossed,
- terms,
- devastate,
- decomposition,
- choke back,
- straighten out,
- ravishment,
- berth,
- perish,
- spotting,
- bodily function,
- morbidity,
- stultification,
- nausea,
- transmitter,
- conk,
- stench,
- scrag,
- deterioration,
- drubbing,
- desert,
- wastewater,
- waste,
- scourge,
- ancestry,
- deprivation,
- carbonic acid gas,
- square away,
- letter carrier,
- appall,
- irreverence,
- sin,
- backsliding,
- stock,
- conflate,
- debase,
- tucker out,
- criminalism,
- despoil,
- breach,
- abasement,
- press cutting,
- mundaneness,
- tidy,
- speckle,
- contradictory,
- shove,
- lancinating,
- chivy,
- fuse,
- toxic industrial waste,
- dingy,
- blending,
- canker sore,
- legal injury,
- despoliation,
- lighting,
- contagious disease,
- clean-living,
- trial,
- beating,
- cast,
- bleak,
- recidivate,
- tire,
- sporty,
- wrong,
- englut,
- tat,
- decline,
- exit,
- croak,
- intermix,
- drag through the mud,
- skank,
- cloth,
- retrogression,
- mail carrier,
- cheating,
- mayhem,
- handicap,
- denigrate,
- pass away,
- smudge,
- fecal matter,
- excitation,
- disability,
- disfigure,
- fall back,
- step,
- post,
- odium,
- run through,
- disfigurement,
- neat,
- dejection,
- coalesce,
- gormandize,
- thinning,
- stuff and nonsense,
- wipe out,
- dapple,
- buy the farm,
- lampblack,
- constipation,
- fall in,
- foul,
- oxidization,
- farce,
- unobjectionable,
- molder,
- simple regression,
- block,
- maturation,
- revilement,
- unsporting,
- relapsing,
- portmanteau,
- distinguish,
- spotlight,
- crossing,
- admixture,
- bedaub,
- scathe,
- go by,
- scarf out,
- backslide,
- malicious gossip,
- plumb,
- scavenge,
- gag,
- mustiness,
- immix,
- disfiguration,
- spoilage,
- pornography,
- leavening,
- soil,
- ingurgitate,
- pestiferous,
- crock,
- meld,
- overindulge,
- personnel casualty,
- crud,
- misapply,
- malodour,
- going.
- crossbreeding,
- putrescence,
- Hybridism,
- soilure,
- activity,
- baffling,
- Rubigo,
- mucor,
- bewildering,
- Fouling,
- Polluting,
- abomination,
- bespatter,
- discoloration,
- stain,
- fetor,
- blend,
- festering,
- choke off,
- Sullying,
- saturation point,
- Tainting,
- Blighting,
- dirty,
- havoc,
- blacken,
- befoul,
- soiling,
- cutting,
- must,
- desecration,
- fallout,
- injury,
- maltreatment,
- watering,
- blemish,
- radiant energy,
- dishonouring,
- profanation,
- Doctoring,
- clog up,
- enigmatical,
- prostitution,
- violation,
- Delaceration,
- clog,
- oxidation,
- loss,
- staining,
- outrage,
- impairment,
- putrefaction,
- inroad,
- sacrilege,
- pollute,
- alloy,
- vector,
- addle,
- virus,
- confusingly,
- puzzling,
- Tainture,
- misuse,
- venenation,
- portmanteau word,
- contaminate,
- defile,
- spoiling,
- confounding,
- mold,
- bewilderingly,
- leaven,
- air pollution,
- spot,
- carrier,
- disgrace,
- Soiliness,
- malign,
- choke,
- half-life,
- detriment,
- besmear,
- hybrid,
- Befouling,
- canker,
- Defoedation,
- harmfulness,
- abuse,
- radioactivity,
- confusing,
- lacing,
- besmirch,
- debasement,
- epidemiology,
- denaturalization,
- enigmatic,
- attaint,
- back up,
- Inquination,
- ravage,
- Tarnishing,
- congest,
- desecrate,
- blot,
- mildew,
- begrime,
- infect,
- violate,
- Scath,
- defect,
- perplexing.
How to use "Contamination" in context?
Infection is a process by which microorganisms such as bacteria or viruses enter the body and cause disease. The majority of infections are caused by viruses, which are tiny strands of protein or nucleic acid. Bacteria are also common agents of infection, but they can cause disease in different ways than viruses.
One kind of contamination is caused by the accidental release of harmful substances, such as toxic fumes or radiation. Environmental contamination is also a problem, as substances that should not be released into the environment may be released into the environment. Finally, genetic contamination can be caused by the transfer of genetic material between different organisms.
Paraphrases for Contamination:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
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Equivalence
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Proper noun, singular
pollution.
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Noun, singular or mass
pollution.
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Verb, past tense
pollution.
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Verb, past participle
contaminated.
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Proper noun, singular
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
soiling.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
decontamination, cross-contamination.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
degradation, dirt, emission, exposure, grime, impurity, infestation, polluter, transmission, Fouling.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Proper noun, singular
contaminant, contaminated, contaminants.
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Noun, singular or mass
contagion, contaminant, contaminated, contaminating, poisoning, radiation, remediation.
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Proper noun, singular
Homophones for Contamination:
Hypernym for Contamination:
n.
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dust contamination.
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dust contamination.
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act
Hyponym for Contamination:
n.
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impureness, impurity.
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state
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- Synonyms:
- accessory, contributive, contributory, helpful, leading, promotive, tending, useful, calculated to produce, productive of.