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Adjective contaminating has 2 senses

dirty, contaminating - 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"
corrupting, contaminating - that infects or taints
Antonym: noninfectious (indirect, via infectious)

Verb contaminate has 2 senses

pollute, foul, contaminate - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
--₁ is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire

Derived forms: noun contamination₂, noun contamination₁, noun contamination₃, noun contaminant₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
contaminate - make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
--₂ is one way to change, alter, modify
Antonyms: decontaminate

Derived forms: noun contamination₂, noun contamination₁, noun contamination₃
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something