Contaminating

Definition: Contaminating

Contaminating

Adjective

1. Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout".

2. That infects or taints.

Date "contaminating" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references)

Synonyms: Contaminating

Synonyms: corrupting (adj), dirty (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: clean (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Contaminating

English words defined with "contaminating": background noise ♦ contamination ♦ dust contamination ♦ ground noise ♦ pollution. (references)

Specialty definitions using "contaminating": Bones ♦ medium-solids recovery plant ♦ Oil Spill ♦ pure yeast cultures ♦ regenerated dense medium ♦ SCRAP SORTER, Significant Potential Source of Contamination, Substance-specific applied research. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Contaminating Theatre: Intersections of Theatre, Therapy, and Public Health (Psychosocial Issues) (reference) Penetration and Permeability of Concrete: Barriers to Organic and Contaminating Liquids (RILEM Report Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Opening the valve into the wind of an evacuated glass flask while the observer holds his breath to keep from contaminating the sample. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Care should be taken to avoid contaminating hands and clothes. (references)
		In a subarachnoid hemorrhage, one of the small arteries within the subarachnoid space bursts, flooding the area with blood and contaminating the cerebrospinal fluid. (references)
		Once this product is shown to be safe and effective, all hemophiliacs will have available a treatment for bleeding which is totally free of any contaminating agents. (references)
Economic History	Spain	Through the Ministry of Environment, the government imposes fines on contaminating industries. (references)
Trade	Argentina	Environmental equipment, necessary to eliminate pollution or contaminating elements from the air, soil or water in a production plant may also be imported under this regime. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Contaminating" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 81.08% of the time. "Contaminating" is used about 37 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	81.08%	30	63,341
Adjective (general or positive)	13.51%	5	157,705
Noun (singular)	5.41%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	37	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "contaminating": non-contaminating.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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.

Language		Translations for "contaminating"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		沾�" (Contaminate, Contaminated). (various references)

Danish		smitstof (contagium, contaminating organism), kontaminerende tilfældigt forekommende ikke-cytopatisk virus (contaminating adventitious noncytopathic virus), kontaminationsevnen af nitrosyl-ruthenium forbindelser udledt til havet fra en braendsel-oparbejdningsfabrik (contaminating power of nitrosyl-ruthenium derivates discharge0 to the sea by spent fuel reprocessing plants). (various references)

Dutch		bijkomend verontreinigend niet-cytopathogeen virus (contaminating adventitious noncytopathic virus), besmettend vermogen van nitrosylrutheniumderivaten, die door fabrieken voor de opwerking van splijtstof in zee worden geloosd (contaminating power of nitrosyl-ruthenium derivates discharge0 to the sea by spent fuel reprocessing plants). (various references)

French		contaminant (contaminant). (various references)

German		verseuchend, verpestend. (various references)

Greek		μολυσματικός ανώμαλος μη κυτοπαθολογικός ιός (contaminating adventitious noncytopathic virus), "μολυσματική ικανότητα" των παραγώγων του νιτροζυλορουθηνίου που απορρίπτονται στη θάλασσα από μονάδες ανακατεργασίας ακτινοβολημένων κ�. (various references)

Italian		virus avventizio non citopatico contaminante (contaminating adventitious noncytopathic virus), potere contaminante dei derivati del nitrosilrutenio scaricati in mare dagli impianti di ritrattamento dei combustibili irradiati (contaminating power of nitrosyl-ruthenium derivates discharge0 to the sea by spent fuel reprocessing plants). (various references)

Korean		오염 (Contamination, Pollution). (various references)

Pig Latin		ontaminatingcay

Portuguese		vírus contaminante adventicio não citopatogénico (contaminating adventitious noncytopathic virus), poder de contaminação do nitrosil-ruténio proveniente de descargas efectuadas pelas estações de reprocessamento de combustível (contaminating power of nitrosyl-ruthenium derivates discharge0 to the sea by spent fuel reprocessing plants). (various references)

Spanish		virus contaminante no citopático casual (contaminating adventitious noncytopathic virus), poder contaminante de los derivados del nitrosil-rutenio vertido en la mar por las plantas de tratamiento de combustibles irradiados (contaminating power of nitrosyl-ruthenium derivates discharge0 to the sea by spent fuel reprocessing plants). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "contaminating": decontaminating, recontaminating. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "contaminating" (pronounced kunta"munā'ting)
8	-a" m u n ā' t i ng	laminating.
7	-m u n ā' t i ng	culminating, discriminating, disseminating, dominating, eliminating, emanating, exterminating, illuminating, incriminating, nominating, predominating, terminating.
6	-u n ā' t i ng	alienating, assassinating, chlorinating, coordinating, decaffeinating, detonating, fascinating, hydrogenating, impersonating, originating, procrastinating, rejuvenating, resonating, subordinating, urinating.
5	-n ā' t i ng	alternating, designating, donating, stagnating.
4	-ā' t i ng	abbreviating, abdicating, abrogating, accelerating, accentuating, accommodating, accumulating, activating, adjudicating, administrating, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, alleviating, allocating, anticipating, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, articulating, assimilating, associating, authenticating, automating, calculating, captivating, castigating, castrating, celebrating, circulating, coagulating, collaborating, commemorating, communicating, compensating, complicating, concentrating, confiscating, congratulating, consolidating, consummating, contemplating, cooperating, corroborating, cultivating, debilitating, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, degenerating, delegating, deliberating, delineating, demonstrating, denigrating, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deteriorating, devastating, dictating, differentiating, disintegrating, dissipating, domesticating, duplicating, educating, elaborating, electroplating, elevating, emigrating, emulating, encapsulating, enunciating, equivocating, eradicating, escalating, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, exacerbating, exaggerating, exasperating, excavating, excoriating, excruciating, exhilarating, exonerating, extenuating, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fluctuating, formulating, frustrating, generating, graduating, gravitating, gyrating, hesitating, humiliating, illustrating, imitating, implicating, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, incubating, indicating, infatuating, infiltrating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instigating, insulating, integrating, interrogating, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, investigating, invigorating, irritating, isolating, legislating, levitating, liberating, liquidating, litigating, locating, lubricating, mandating, manipulating, masturbating, mediating, meditating, migrating, misappropriating, mitigating, moderating, motivating, mutilating, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negotiating, nitrating, nonoperating, obliterating, obviating, officiating, operating, orchestrating, oscillating, overestimating, overstating, participating, penetrating, percolating, permeating, perpetrating, perpetuating, placating, pontificating, populating, precipitating, prognosticating, proliferating, promulgating, propagating, pulsating, radiating, reactivating, reallocating, recalculating, reciprocating, recreating, recuperating, redecorating, reevaluating, regenerating, regulating, rehabilitating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, relegating, renegotiating, renovating, repatriating, replicating, repudiating, resuscitating, retaliating, reverberating, rotating, salivating, saturating, segregating, separating, simulating, speculating, stimulating, stipulating, suffocating, syndicating, tabulating, titillating, tolerating, underestimating, understating, undulating, vacillating, validating, ventilating.
3	-t i ng	abating, abducting, abetting, aborting, abutting, accenting, accepting, accosting, accounting, accrediting, acquitting, acting, adapting, addicting, adjusting, admitting, adopting, affecting, afflicting, airlifting, alerting, allotting, amounting, annotating, appointing, arresting, assaulting, asserting, assisting, attempting, attesting, attracting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, carpeting, carting, casting, catapulting, cavorting, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collecting, combating, combatting, comforting, commenting, committing, commuting, competing, complementing, completing, complimenting, composting, computing, concocting, conducting, conflicting, confronting, connecting, consenting, consisting, consorting, constituting, constricting, constructing, consulting, contacting, contesting, contracting, contradicting, contrasting, contributing, converting, convicting, copycatting, correcting, correlating, corrupting, costing, counteracting, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, decanting, deducting, defaulting, defeating, defecting, deflating, deflecting, defrosting, deleting, delighting, delisting, denting, departing, depicting, depleting, deporting, depositing, deserting, destructing, detecting, detracting, devoting, dieting, digesting, diluting, directing, disappointing, disconcerting, disconnecting, discounting, discrediting, disgusting, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrespecting, disrupting, dissecting, dissenting, distorting, distracting, distributing, districting, diverting, divesting, documenting, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, dusting, eating, editing, effecting, elating, electing, eliciting, emitting, enacting, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, equating, erecting, erupting, escorting, everlasting, evicting, exacting, exalting, excepting, exciting, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhorting, existing, exiting, expecting, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extorting, extracting, extraditing, fainting, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, grafting, granting, grating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, hunting, hurting, igniting, impacting, imparting, implanting, implementing, importing, imprinting, inciting, indicting, infecting, infighting, inflating, inflicting, ingesting, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, injecting, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, inspecting, instituting, instructing, insulting, interacting, intercepting, interdicting, interesting, interpreting, interrupting, intersecting, inventing, investing, inviting, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, lasting, letting, lifting, lighting, limiting, listing, looting, lusting, malting, manifesting, marketing, marting, mating, matting, meeting, melting, minting, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, mounting, mutating, muting, negating, neglecting, nesting, netting, nonbiting, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, objecting, obstructing, offsetting, omitting, opting, orbiting, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overheating, overreacting, overshooting, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, perfecting, permitting, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, porting, posting, pouting, predicting, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, profiting, prohibiting, projecting, promoting, prompting, prosecuting, prospecting, protecting, protesting, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reacting, readjusting, reasserting, rebutting, recanting, recasting, reciting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstituting, reconstructing, recounting, recruiting, redacting, redirecting, redistributing, redistricting, reelecting, refitting, reflecting, refuting, regretting, reigniting, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, rejecting, relating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renting, repainting, repeating, replanting, reporting, representing, reprinting, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resorting, respecting, restarting, restating, resting, restricting, resubmitting, resulting, resurrecting, retesting, retracting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotting, rusting, salting, saluting, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, selecting, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, starting, stating, strutting, subcontracting, subjecting, submitting, substituting, subtracting, subverting, suggesting, superconducting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, suspecting, sweating, Sweeting, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, toasting, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underreporting, underwriting, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unsuspecting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, vacating, vaulting, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-g-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-t-t"
	-2 letters: contaminant, incantation.
	-3 letters: annotating, antinomian, containing, incogitant, intonating, nominating.
	-4 letters: agitation, animating, animation, anointing, antinomic, attaining, cantoning, incanting, incognita, manicotti, nicotiana, nictating, nonacting.
	-5 letters: actinian, agnation, agnomina, amanitin, amitotic, amnionic, amniotic, anatomic, antiatom, cinnamon, citation, contagia, inaction, incitant, incoming, intoning, magician, maintain, manganic, mannitic, natation, notating, noticing, omitting, tainting, tincting.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-g-i-i-m-n-n-n-o-t-t"
	+2 letters: decontaminating, recontaminating.
	+4 letters: antimiscegenation.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
contaminating diesel fuel gasoline	2
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Contaminating

Definition: Contaminating

Contaminating

Adjective

Synonyms: Contaminating

Crosswords: Contaminating

Commercial Usage: Contaminating

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Photo Album: Contaminating

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Usage Frequency: Contaminating

Expression: Contaminating

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Contaminating

contaminating diesel fuel gasoline

Modern Translation: Contaminating

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Derivations: Contaminating

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Rhyming with "Contaminating"

Anagrams: Contaminating

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