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say it: kuhn-TAM-uh-nay-ting
contaminating is an adjective meaning "spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination". It carries 2 recorded senses.
spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination
“the air near the foundry was always dirty”
“a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout”
that infects or taints
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for contaminating come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.