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cross-contaminating

cross-contaminating is the present participle and gerund of cross-contaminate.

Meaning of cross-contaminate

Verb

cross-contaminate (third-person singular simple present cross-contaminates, present participle cross-contaminating, simple past and past participle cross-contaminated)

  1. (transitive) To transfer a contaminant from one source to another.

Questions about cross-contaminating

What is cross-contaminating the present participle and gerund of?
Cross-contaminating is the present participle and gerund of cross-contaminate.

Words near cross-contaminating in the dictionary

  1. cross-contact
  2. cross-contaminant
  3. cross-contaminate
  4. cross-contaminated
  5. cross-contaminates
  6. cross-contaminating
  7. cross-contamination
  8. cross-contaminations
  9. cross-contaminator
  10. cross-contaminators
  11. cross-correlate

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