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Contaminated

Definition: Contaminated

Contaminated

Adjective

1. Corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence".

2. Contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen.

3. Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "contaminated" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Contaminated

DomainDefinition

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Made radioactive by addition or adsorption of more or less minute quantities of radioactive material. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Contaminated

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField
COSTEnglishContaminated Oil Settling TankChemistry, Environment

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Contaminated

Synonyms: dirty (adj), infected (adj), polluted (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: uncontaminated (adj). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Contaminated

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Morbid, tainted, vitiated, peccant, contaminated, poisoned, tabid, mangy, leprous, cankered; rotten, rotten to the core, rotten at the core; withered, palsied, paralytic;dyspeptic; luetic, pneumonic, pulmonic, phthisic, rachitic; syntectic, syntectical; tabetic, varicose.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Contaminated

English words defined with "contaminated": acquired immune deficiency syndrome, AIDS, amebic dysentery, amoebic dysentery, Asiatic cholera, axeniccholera, Contaminable, contaminationdirty, dust contaminationEnfect, epidemic cholerafood poisoninggastrointestinal disorder, giardiasishepatitis BIncontaminate, Indian cholera, infectedmagneticallypolluted, pollutionsalmonellosis, scrofulous, serum hepatitistaintuncontaminated, unpolluted. (references)
Specialty definitions using "contaminated": Abandoned wells, accelerated exposure, Action levels, active laundry, air jet ventilation, Air Stripping, atomically-clean semiconductor surfaceBATH-MIX OPERATOR, Biomagnification, BOILER-OPERATOR HELPER, Botulinum Toxin Type Acataracta raphanica, CHANGE-HOUSE ATTENDANT, CHAR PULLER, Chicken Anemia Virus, clean cuttings, compartmental division of the condenser, Contact Tracing, contamination control line, contamination control pointDECONTAMINATOR, double-ended dunk tank, dry boss, dry janitorEGG-BREAKING-MACHINE OPERATOR, Emergency Removal Action, ergot cataract, EVAPORATOR OPERATOR I, extrinsic silica glassFood-borne illnessesGas Gangrene, germ free, Germ-Free Life, Ground-Water Dischargehand-and-foot monitor, health-physics technicianimmediate decontamination, indirectly heated systems, Infectious Bursal Disease Virus, in-ground encapsulation, In-Situ Stripping, In-Situ Vitrificationmercury recoverer, MERCURY WASHER, Mermithoidea, Mode of Transmission, Monocrotaline, multiple-effect evaporator operator, MycotoxinsNewcastle Disease Virus, No apparent public health hazard, Nuclear wasteoff site disposalPassive Treatment Walls, personnel monitor, Potentially Responsible PartyRADIATION MONITOR, remedial design, Respiratory Protective Devices, return aircourse, reversed bratticingsampling bag, settling pond, shower room attendant, sick mercury, soil venting, sour gas, Staphylococcal Food Poisoning, SUPERVISOR, MELT HOUSE, SUPERVISOR, TILE-AND-MOTTLE, supplied-air respiratorTransuranic Waste, Trichostrongylosis, tube-fed breathing equipmentvacuum extraction, vacuum-pan operator, Vesicular Exanthema of Swine Viruswaste removal, WASTE-DISPOSAL ATTENDANT, WASTE-MANAGEMENT ENGINEER, RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS, whiting substitute, wipe test. (references)

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Modern Usage: Contaminated

DomainUsage

Screenplays

It's not contaminated, you don't even know what that word means (Signs; writing credit: M. Night Shyamalan)

They're not aliens they're spiders mutated by contaminated waste (Eight Legged Freaks; writing credit: Ellory Elkayem; Randy Kornfield)

Movie/TV Titles

Tales of the Contaminated City (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Contaminated

DomainTitle

Books

  • Description and Sampling of Contaminated Soils: A Field Guide (reference)

  • Don't Drink the Water: The Essential Guide to Our Contaminated Drinking Water and What You Can Do About It (reference)

  • Innovative Approaches to the On-Site Assessment and Remediation of Contaminated Sites (reference)

  • Prospective Purchaser Agreements: Reducing the Liability Risks of Contaminated Property (reference)

  • Restoration of Contaminated Aquifers: Petroleum Hydrocarbons and Organic Compounds, Second Edition (reference)

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Theater & Movies

  

Music

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Image Slideshow: Contaminated

Photos:
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Photo Album: Contaminated

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This 50 year old female had been a carder in a wool factory for 6 years. This lesion is on the 8th day of the illness. Cutaneous anthrax usually occurs after skin contact with contaminated meat, wool, hides, or leather from infected animals. Credit: CDC.

The ultraviolet pass box cabinet was used in Maximum Containment labs, through which possibly contaminated objects were passed in order to render any pathogens lifeless during transfer between laboratory rooms. Credit: CDC.

A flume used to collect contaminated drainage at Iron Mountain Mine. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

A mine opening, adit. Note the highly contaminated acidic mine drainage coming from the left. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

More contaminated waste rock in gulleys. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

West Fork Blackbird Creek, a tailing facility. The structure to the right is a spillway. Several million cubic yards contaminated tailings are behind the dam. Water is diverted into a concrete channel so it does not come into contact with the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Bucktail Creek, a part of the remediation action. Removing contaminated sediments. The removal of the sediments took place between 1995 - 2000. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The top of the West Fork Tailing Facility, looking downstream. The West Fork of Blackbird Creek has been diverted over the top of the contaminated tailings as part of the remediation. Now, the creek does not flow through the tailings. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The New Bedford side of the Inner Harbor near one of the combined disposal facilities on the New Bedford side. The sign here is in Portugese and English. The sign warns people to keep out of the river because it is contaminated. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Microbiologist Amy Charkowski and graduate student Abdulah Harris observe the display of a confocal microscope being used to examine an alfalfa sprout root that has been experimentally contaminated with Salmonella. The microbes show uup green or blue on the computer screen. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Contaminated

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

These items may be contaminated with Crypto. (references)

Soil contaminated with bird or bat droppings. (references)

Avoid water or food that may be contaminated. (references)

Business

Foreign companies have made some inroads in the contaminated soil market. (references)

The scandal particularly affected KFC because the contaminated animals were chickens. (references)

The main pollution problems include contaminated effluents, air contaminants, and chemical waste. (references)

Children

Guatemala

In June the Archbishop's Human Rights Office released an annual report, which noted that malnutrition affected some 46 percent of the country's children; infant mortality impacts 45 children per 1,000. In June and July, several children reportedly died of malnutrition and illnesses associated with contaminated drinking water in the poor rural area of Fraijanes. (references)

Economic History

Belarus

But government restrictions on residence and use of contaminated land are not strictly enforced. (references)

El Salvador

An estimated 90 percent of the rivers are contaminated and air pollution is a growing problem in major cities. (references)

Trade

Ghana

Import prohibitions include: narcotics, mercuric medicated soap, toxic waste, contaminated goods, foreign cigarettes without a warning notice, foreign soil, counterfeit notes and coins of any country, and any goods prohibited by local law. (references)

Travel

Peru

Travelers in Peru should always substitute bottled beverages for potentially contaminated water. (references)

Ecuador

There are numerous health hazards in Ecuador, principally caused by contaminated water and food. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Speeches: Contaminated

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We should restore contaminated urban land and buildings to productive use.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Contaminated

"Contaminated" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 51.22% of the time. "Contaminated" is used about 489 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)51.22%25118,755
Lexical Verb (past participle)40.61%19921,651
Lexical Verb (past tense)7.76%3855,818
Noun (proper)0.41%2245,945
                    Total100.00%489N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Contaminated

Expressions using "contaminated": animal suspected of being contaminated be contaminated by locally contaminated site poultry suspected of being contaminated uniformly contaminated site. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "contaminated": asbestos-contaminated, dioxin-contaminated, pcb-contaminated.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Contaminated

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

contaminated land

21

contaminated drinking water

4

contaminated groundwater

20

contaminated land services

4

contaminated water

18

contaminated petroleum soil treatment

3

contaminated soil

17

contaminated soil treatment

3

attorney contaminated drug

16

cloth contaminated recycling

3

contaminated drug lawyer

13

contaminated well water

2

contaminated

10

contaminated food

2

contaminated drug litigation

8

contaminated picture water

2

contaminated drug poisoning

8

asphalt contaminated hydrocarbon recycle soil

2

contaminated drug

8

contaminated disposal respirator

2

contaminated medication

7

contaminated property valuation

2

contaminated site

4

contaminated drinking safe water

2

contaminated item

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Contaminated

Language Translations for "contaminated"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i ndyrë (abject, atrocious, bloody, cotton-picking, crappy, dirty, filthy, foul, hoggish, horrid, lousy, low, low down, mangy, muddy, nasty, piggish, puddly, salacious, shut in, sordid, squalid, stained, stinking, vile, villainous), i fëlliqur (dirt, dirty, disgraceful, filthy, grimy, lewd, lousy, mean, mourning, muddy, sludgy, squalid). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مفسد (corruptive, infectious, perversive, spoiling), ‏ملوث (defiled, dirty, filed, foul, impure, infectious, polluted, polluter, spotted, staining), ‏قذر (augean, beastly, crummy, defiled, dingy, dirt, dirty, disreputable, dungy, filthy, foul, ghoulish, grimy, grubby, impure, lousy, mean, mucky, muddy, nasty, obscene, pig, piggish, polluted, rubbishy, sinful, slattern, slatternly, slob, sloppy, slovenly, smutty, soil, sordid, squalid, unclean, uncleanly, untidy, verminous, vile). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

осквернен, заразен (communicable, contagious, infected, infectious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

沾" (Contaminate, Contaminating). (various references)

   

Czech

  

kontaminovaný. (various references)

   

Danish

  

smittet, kontamineret, forurenet (polluted). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

besmet (infected). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

infektita (infected). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

tasaisesti saastunut maa-alue (uniformly contaminated site), saastuneeksi epäilty siipikarja (poultry suspected of being contaminated), pistemäisesti saastunut maa-alue (locally contaminated site), homogeenisesti saastunut maa-alue (uniformly contaminated site), heterogeenisesti saastunut maa-alue (locally contaminated site). (various references)

   

French

  

souillé. (various references)

   

German

  

verseuchte, dotiert (endows). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μολυσμένος (polluted). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מזו"ם (dirty, filthy, infected, nasty, polluted, septic, soiled), מסואב (dirty, filthy, polluted, soiled), אלוח (contamination, infection, pollution, sepsis, septic), טמא (defiled, impure, unclean), אלח (dirty, infected, polluted, rotten, stained), 'וע (afflicted, diseased, infected, plague stricken, stricken). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szennyezett (feculent, menstruous, polluted, tainted), fertõzött (infected). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

tercemar (befouled, besmitched, polluted), ketularan (infected). (various references)

   

Italian

  

contaminato. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

오염하". (various references)

   

Manx

  

sollit (defiled, dirted, soiled). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ontaminatedcay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

contaminado radioactivamente, contaminado (contaminate, infect). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

зараженный (infected), загрязненный. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaražen (infected, pestilent), zagađen, kontaminovan. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

contaminado (infected, tainted), contagiado (infected). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

förorenat. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kirlenmiş, bozulmuş (abashed, broken down, cankered, corrupt, degenerate, flyblown, gone, out, putrid, rank, ropy, ruined, spoilt, unmade, upset, withered, wrecked). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

заражений (infected), забруднений (bedraggled, blurred, drossy, feculent, maculate, smudgy, splotchy, stained). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Contaminated

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

admixtis, coinquinata, coinquinatae, coinquinati, coinquinatis, coinquinatum, coinquinatus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Contaminated

Derivations

Words ending with "contaminated": decontaminated, recontaminated, uncontaminated. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Contaminated" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: contaiminate, contaiminated. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Contaminated"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "contaminated" (pronounced kunta"munā'tud)
12k u n t a" m u n ā' t u ddecontaminated, uncontaminated.
8-a" m u n ā' t u dlaminated.
7-m u n ā' t u dculminated, denominated, discriminated, disseminated, dominated, eliminated, emanated, exterminated, germinated, illuminated, nominated, predominated, renominated, ruminated, terminated.
6-u n ā' t u dalienated, assassinated, caffeinated, carbonated, chlorinated, decaffeinated, detonated, fascinated, halogenated, hydrogenated, hyphenated, impersonated, indoctrinated, marinated, opinionated, originated, oxygenated, pollinated, rejuvenated, resonated, subordinated.
5-n ā' t u dalternated, designated, donated, impregnated, reincarnated, stagnated.
4-ā' t u dabrogated, accelerated, accentuated, acclimated, accommodated, abbreviated, abdicated, accumulated, activated, adjudicated, adulterated, advocated, affiliated, aggravated, aggregated, agitated, alleviated, allocated, amalgamated, ameliorated, amputated, angulated, animated, annihilated, anticipated, antiquated, appreciated, appropriated, approximated, arbitrated, articulated, aspirated, assimilated, associated, attenuated, authenticated, automated, backdated, bifurcated, calculated, calibrated, capitulated, captivated, castigated, castrated, celebrated, circulated, collaborated, commemorated, communicated, compensated, complicated, concentrated, confiscated, congratulated, congregated, consecrated, consolidated, constipated, consummated, contemplated, cooperated, correlated, corroborated, corrugated, crenelated, cultivated, deactivated, debilitated, decapitated, decelerated, decimated, decorated, degenerated, delegated, deliberated, delineated, demonstrated, denigrated, depreciated, desegregated, deteriorated, devaluated, devastated, deviated, dictated, differentiated, dilapidated, interpolated, interrogated, intimated, intimidated, intoxicated, inundated, invalidated, investigated, invigorated, irradiated, irrigated, irritated, isolated, legislated, levitated, liberated, liquidated, litigated, located, lubricated, disintegrated, dissipated, domesticated, duplicated, educated, elevated, elucidated, emaciated, emancipated, emasculated, emigrated, emulated, encapsulated, enumerated, enunciated, eradicated, escalated, estimated, evacuated, evaluated, evaporated, eviscerated, exacerbated, exaggerated, exasperated, excavated, excommunicated, excoriated, exhilarated, exonerated, expropriated, extrapolated, extricated, fabricated, facilitated, federated, fixated, flagellated, fluctuated, formulated, frustrated, generated, glaciated, graduated, gravitated, gyrated, hesitated, humiliated, hydrated, illustrated, imitated, immigrated, implicated, inactivated, inaugurated, incapacitated, incarcerated, incinerated, incorporated, inculcated, indicated, infatuated, infiltrated, infuriated, initiated, innovated, inoculated, instigated, insulated, integrated, mandated, manipulated, masturbated, mediated, medicated, migrated, misallocated, misappropriated, miscalculated, mitigated, moderated, motivated, mutated, mutilated, narrated, nauseated, navigated, necessitated, negotiated, nonregulated, obligated, obliterated, officiated, operated, orchestrated, orientated, outdated, overestimated, overregulated, overstated, participated, penetrated, perforated, permeated, perpetrated, perpetuated, pontificated, populated, precipitated, predicated, prefabricated, premeditated, prognosticated, proliferated, promulgated, propagated, punctuated, radiated, reactivated, reallocated, rebated, recalculated, reciprocated, recreated, redecorated, reevaluated, reformulated, refrigerated, regenerated, regulated, rehabilitated, reintegrated, reinvigorated, reiterated, relegated, renegotiated, renovated, repatriated, replicated, repudiated, resuscitated, retaliated, reverberated, rotated, salivated, saturated, segregated, separated, serrated, simulated, situated, sophisticated, speculated, stalemated, stimulated, stipulated, subjugated, substantiated, suffocated, syncopated, syndicated, tabulated, titillated, tolerated, truncated, unadulterated, unaffiliated, unallocated, unanticipated, unappreciated, uncompensated, uncomplicated, unconsolidated, underestimated, understated, undifferentiated, uneducated, unincorporated, uninitiated, unmitigated, unregulated, unsaturated, unsophisticated, unsubstantiated, venerated, ventilated.
3-t u dabstracted, abutted, accented, accepted, abated, abducted, abetted, aborted, accosted, accounted, accredited, acquainted, acquitted, acted, adapted, addicted, adjusted, admitted, adopted, affected, afflicted, affronted, airlifted, alerted, allotted, amounted, annotated, anted, appointed, arrested, assaulted, asserted, assisted, assorted, attempted, attested, attracted, attributed, audited, augmented, averted, awaited, baited, bankrupted, bated, batted, belated, belted, benefited, benefitted, benighted, berated, bested, bigoted, blacklisted, blanketed, blasted, blighted, bloated, blunted, blurted, boasted, boated, bolted, boosted, booted, boycotted, breasted, budgeted, busted, carbureted, carotid, carpeted, carted, catapulted, cemented, chanted, charted, chatted, cheated, chested, circuited, circumvented, cited, closeted, clotted, coasted, coated, coexisted, collected, comforted, commented, committed, commuted, compacted, competed, complemented, completed, complimented, computed, conceited, concerted, concocted, conducted, conflicted, confronted, congested, conjugated, connected, conscripted, consented, consisted, constituted, constricted, constructed, consulted, contacted, contented, contested, contorted, contracted, contradicted, contrasted, contributed, converted, convicted, convoluted, coordinated, copyrighted, corrected, corrupted, costed, counted, counteracted, counterfeited, courted, coveted, crafted, created, credited, cremated, crested, crusted, darted, dated, daunted, debated, dedicated, deducted, defaulted, defeated, defected, deflated, deflected, dehydrated, dejected, deleted, delighted, delisted, demented, demoted, denoted, dented, departed, depicted, depleted, deported, deposited, deregulated, desecrated, deserted, destructed, detected, detested, detracted, devoted, digested, dilated, diluted, directed, disaffected, disappointed, disassociated, disconnected, discontented, interpreted, interrelated, interrupted, intersected, introverted, invented, inverted, invested, invited, jacketed, jetted, jilted, jointed, jolted, jotted, knighted, knitted, knotted, lambasted, lamented, lasted, lifted, lighted, lighthearted, limited, listed, looted, lusted, discounted, discredited, disenchanted, disgusted, disinterested, disinvited, disjointed, dislocated, disoriented, dispirited, disputed, disrespected, disrupted, dissected, dissented, distorted, distracted, distributed, distrusted, diverted, divested, documented, dotted, doubted, drafted, drifted, dusted, edited, effected, ejected, elaborated, elated, elected, electrocuted, elicited, elongated, emitted, enacted, enchanted, encrusted, encrypted, enlisted, entrusted, equated, erected, erupted, escorted, evicted, exacted, exalted, excepted, excerpted, excited, executed, exempted, exerted, exhausted, exhibited, exhorted, existed, exited, expected, expedited, experimented, exploited, exported, extorted, extracted, extradited, extroverted, exulted, faceted, fainted, fainthearted, farsighted, fasted, fated, faulted, feasted, fermented, ferreted, feted, fetid, filleted, fingerprinted, fisted, fitted, flabbergasted, flaunted, flirted, floated, flouted, foisted, fomented, footed, footnoted, forecasted, forested, forfeited, fragmented, frequented, fretted, fronted, frosted, gated, gifted, gloated, glutted, grafted, granted, grated, greeted, grunted, guested, gusted, gutted, halfhearted, hallucinated, halted, handcrafted, harvested, hated, hearted, heated, helmeted, highlighted, hinted, hoisted, hooted, hosted, hunted, ignited, impacted, imparted, implanted, implemented, imported, imprinted, imputed, incited, indebted, indicted, indited, inducted, infected, infested, inflated, inflected, inflicted, ingested, inhabited, inherited, inhibited, injected, inserted, insinuated, insisted, inspected, instituted, instructed, insulted, interacted, intercepted, interconnected, interdicted, interested, interjected, maladjusted, malted, maltreated, manifested, marketed, masted, mated, melted, merited, meted, minted, misdirected, misinterpreted, misquoted, misreported, misrepresented, misstated, mistreated, mistrusted, modulated, molested, mounted, multifaceted, muted, nearsighted, negated, neglected, nested, netted, noted, objected, obstructed, omitted, opted, orbited, oriented, ornamented, ousted, outed, outfitted, outlasted, outvoted, overacted, overexcited, overheated, overpopulated, overrated, overreacted, overrepresented, overweighted, painted, panted, parachuted, parted, pasted, patented, patted, pelleted, pelted, perfected, permitted, persecuted, persisted, perverted, petted, picketed, piloted, pinpointed, pirated, pitted, pivoted, planted, plated, plotted, plummeted, pocketed, pointed, polluted, ported, posited, posted, potted, pouted, predated, predicted, preempted, preexisted, presented, prevented, printed, profited, prohibited, projected, promoted, prompted, prorated, prosecuted, protected, protested, protracted, purported, putted, quieted, quilted, quoted, rafted, ranted, ratcheted, rated, reacted, readjusted, readmitted, reappointed, rearrested, reasserted, rebutted, recanted, recited, recollected, reconnected, reconstituted, reconstructed, recounted, recruited, redacted, redirected, redistributed, redrafted, reelected, reenacted, refitted, reflected, refuted, regimented, regretted, reignited, reinstated, reinstituted, reinterpreted, reinvented, reinvested, reinvited, rejected, related, relented, relocated, remarketed, remitted, rented, repainted, repeated, repented, replanted, reported, represented, reprinted, reputed, requested, rerouted, resented, resisted, resorted, respected, restarted, restated, rested, restricted, resubmitted, resulted, resurrected, retested, retorted, retracted, retreated, retrofitted, reunited, reverted, revisited, revolted, righted, rioted, riveted, roasted, rocketed, roosted, rooted, rotted, rusted, rutted, sainted, salted, saluted, sandblasted, sated, scapegoated, scented, scouted, scripted, sculpted, seated, secreted, sedated, segmented, selected, shafted, shifted, shorted, shortsighted, shouted, shunted, sifted, sighted, silhouetted, sited, skated, skirted, skyrocketed, slanted, slated, slighted, slotted, snorted, solicited, sorted, spirited, sported, spotlighted, spotted, spouted, sprinted, sprouted, spurted, squirted, started, stated, stilted, stunted, subcontracted, subjected, submitted, substituted, subtracted, subverted, suggested, suited, superheated, supplanted, supplemented, supported, surmounted, suspected, swatted, sweated, tainted, talented, targeted, tasted, taunted, tempted, tested, throated, thwarted, ticketed, tightfisted, tilted, tinted, toasted, tormented, toted, touted, transacted, transected, translated, transmitted, transplanted, transported, treated, trotted, trumpeted, trusted, tufted, twisted, unabated, unaccounted, unaccredited, unadjusted, unaffected, unassisted, unaudited, unbolted, uncharted, uncoated, uncollected, uncommitted, uncompleted, unconnected, uncontested, uncontradicted, unconverted, uncoordinated, uncorrected, uncorroborated, uncounted, undated, undaunted, undefeated, undercounted, underrated, underreported, underrepresented, undetected, undiluted, undisputed, undistributed, undocumented, undoubted, unedited, unelected, unexpected, unexploited, unindicted, uninfected, uninhabited, uninhibited, uninterested, uninterrupted, uninvited, United, unlimited, unlisted, unmolested, unobstructed, unpainted, unprecedented, unprotected, unrated, unreconstructed, unrelated, unreported, unrepresented, unrequited, unrestricted, unscripted, unseated, unsolicited, unstated, unsuited, unsupported, unsuspected, untainted, untested, untreated, unwanted, unwarranted, updated, uplifted, uprooted, vacated, vaccinated, vacillated, validated, vatted, vaulted, vaunted, vented, vested, vetted, vindicated, violated, visited, voted, wafted, waited, wanted, warranted, wasted, weighted, whetted, whited, wholehearted, wilted, witted, worsted, wrested.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Contaminated

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-t-t"

-1 letter: contaminate, decantation.

-2 letters: admittance, catenation.

-3 letters: annotated, condiment, contained, damnation, diaconate, dominance, emanation, intonated, mendicant, mentation, nominated.

-4 letters: acetamid, adnation, amandine, anatomic, anecdota, animated, annotate, anointed, antiatom, antidote, antinode, attained, cantoned, catamite, catenoid, coattend, coinmate, comedian, cotenant, daemonic, demoniac, demonian, diamante, dominant, dominate, incanted, intonate, maenadic, manatoid, mandioca, monecian, natation, nictated, nominate, ointment, taconite.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-i-m-n-n-o-t-t"
 

+1 letter: decontaminate.

 

+2 letters: decontaminated, decontaminates, decontaminator, recontaminated, uncontaminated.

 

+3 letters: decontaminating, decontamination, decontaminators, documentational, nonmatriculated.

 

+4 letters: decontaminations.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Quotations: Speeches
10. Usage Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Abbreviations
16. Acronyms
17. Derivations
18. Rhymes
19. Anagrams
20. Bibliography


  

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