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contaminator

contaminator noun: a person who contaminates.

Noun

contaminator (plural contaminators)

  1. A person who contaminates.
    • At which the afflicted father, count Raymond, when his wife Melusine was entering his closet to comfort him, broke out into these words against her, before all the courtiers who attended her: - "Out of my sight, thou pernicious snake and odious serpent! thou contaminator of my race!"1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume II, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 303
  2. A thing that contaminates; a contaminant.

Synonyms of contaminator

All synonyms of contaminator

Forms of contaminator

pluralcontaminators

Origin of contaminator

From contaminate + -or.

Words formed from contaminator

Questions about contaminator

What does contaminator mean?
Contaminator means a person who contaminates.
What part of speech is contaminator?
Contaminator is a noun.
What is the plural of contaminator?
The plural of contaminator is contaminators.

Words near contaminator in the dictionary

  1. contaminating
  2. contamination
  3. contaminations
  4. contaminative
  5. contaminatively
  6. contaminator
  7. contaminators
  8. contaminous
  9. contango
  10. contango day
  11. contango days

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