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Definition: Decontaminate |
DecontaminateVerb1. Rid of contamination; "The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Antonym: contaminate (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Decontaminate |
| Specialty definitions using "decontaminate": WASTE-TREATMENT OPERATOR. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Dixon Bay, the barge that was used to decontaminate and collect oiled materials.Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Methods to decontaminate alfalfa seeds and sprouts are being investigated. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Decontaminate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "Decontaminate" is used about 5 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 (infinitive) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
decontaminate | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "decontaminate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dezinfektoj (disinfect), degazoj (Degas). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | طهر (circumcise, depurate, disinfect, exorcise, exorcize, mop up, pureness, purge, purify, rid, sanitize, scour, show, sterilize, sweeten), أزال التلوث. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | обеззаразявам (disinfect), дегазирам. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | dekontaminovat, provést chemickou oèistu. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dekontaminere (to decontaminate), at rense (to decontaminate), at dekontaminere (to decontaminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | door afbijten ontsmetten (decontaminate by pickling), ontsmetten (disinfect, to decontaminate, to disinfect, to sterilize), langs ultrasone weg ontsmetten (decontaminate by ultrasonic treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ازالودگی مبراکردن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | décontaminer (to decontaminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | entgiften (detoxicate, detoxify, to decontaminate, to detoxicate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | απολυμαίνω (disinfect, disinfection, fumigate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sugárzásmentesít, fertõtlenít (disinfect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | decontaminare (to decontaminate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jeehrullaghey. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | econtaminateday descontaminar (to decontaminate). (various references) dezinfecta (deodorize, disinfect, fumigate, sweeten), decontamina. (various references) обеззараживать. (various references) dekontaminirati. (various references) descontaminar (to decontaminate). (various references) sanera (clear, Degas, make healthy, refinance, reorganize). (various references) zararlı kimyasal maddeden arıtmak, temizlemek (bump off, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear up, depurate, do, do out, erase, excise, expurgate, get rid of, give smth. a sweep, gut, houseclean, mop up, purge, purify, rid, rub out, scavenge, swab down, sweep, swob down, tidy out, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), arındırmak (clean, cleanse, purge, purify). (various references) дегазувати (neutralize), дезактивувати (neutralize). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "decontaminate": decontaminated, decontaminates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "decontaminate" (pronounced dēkunta"munā't) |
| 10 | -k u n t a" m u n ā' t | contaminate. |
| 5 | -m u n ā' t | culminate, denominate, determinate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fulminate, germinate, illuminate, incriminate, inseminate, nominate, predominate, renominate, ruminate, terminate. |
| 4 | -u n ā' t | agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, decaffeinate, detonate, fascinate, halogenate, hydrogenate, hyphenate, impersonate, indoctrinate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, resonate, subordinate, titanate, urinate. |
| 3 | -n ā' t | designate, donate, hibernate, impregnate, reincarnate, stagnate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-t-t" | |
-1 letter: contaminated. | |
-2 letters: cementation, contaminate, decantation. | |
-3 letters: admittance, attendance, catenation, denominate, detainment, emendation, nematocide. | |
-4 letters: acetamide, annotated, atonement, catenated, condiment, contained, contemned, contented, damnation, deaminate, detection, detention, diaconate, dominance, emaciated, emanation, emittance, enactment, intonated, macedoine, menadione, mendicant, mentation, mentioned, nominated. | |
-5 letters: acetamid, acetated, adnation, amandine, anatomic, anecdota, anecdote, animated, annotate, anointed, antedate, antiatom, antidote, antinode, attained, cantoned, catamite, catenate, catenoid, coattend, coinmate, comedian, cotenant, daemonic, decennia, decimate, dementia, demoniac, demonian, detonate, diamante, dominant, dominate, emaciate, emanated, encaenia, enneadic, incanted, indecent, intonate, maenadic, manatoid, mandioca, medicate, meditate, monecian, natation, nematode, neotenic, nictated, nominate, oedemata, ointment, taconite, tenanted, tendance, tetanoid. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-e-i-m-n-n-o-t-t" | |
+1 letter: decontaminated, decontaminates, recontaminated. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01100011 01101111 01101110 01110100 01100001 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e c o n t a m i n a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 0063 006F 006E 0074 0061 006D 0069 006E 0061 0074 0065 |
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