| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One that contaminates: adulterant, adulterator, contaminant, contamination, contaminator, impurity, pollutant. See CLEAN. 2. Anything that is injurious, destructive, or fatal: bane, canker, contagion, toxin, venom, virus. See HELP. | | VERB: | 1. To make physically impure: contaminate, defile, foul, pollute. See CLEAN. 2. To have a destructive effect on: canker, envenom, infect. Archaic : empoison. See HELP. | | ADJECTIVE: | Capable of injuring or killing by poison: mephitic, mephitical, poisonous, toxic, toxicant, venomous, virulent. See HELP.
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