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contaminating

adjective as in corruptive

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The cover is meant to prevent animals and debris from contaminating the water and to limit algae and bacteria.

Farmers are starting to find the chemicals contaminating their land, water, crops and livestock.

They have been linked to diseases from cancer and respiratory diseases to infertility and yet, they are unavoidable, contaminating everything from air to water to food.

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It is also possible for high levels of methanol to be produced by contaminating microbes during traditional ethanol fermentation.

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The women, who had all stayed with their children at the hospital, were accused of making their children ill by administering unprescribed drugs and by deliberately contaminating their feeding lines with faecal material.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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