containment
— Noun
– English
~ a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975"
contaminant
— Noun
– English
~ a substance that contaminates
contaminate
— Verb
– English
~ make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
contaminate
— Verb
– English
~ make radioactive by adding radioactive material; "Don't drink the water--it's contaminated"
contaminated
— Adjective
– English
~ corrupted by contact or association; "contaminated evidence"
contaminated
— Adjective
– English
~ rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
contaminating
— Adjective
– English
~ 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"
contaminating
— Adjective
– English
~ that infects or taints
contamination
— Noun
– English
~ the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
contamination
— Noun
– English
~ the state of being contaminated
contamination
— Noun
– English
~ a substance that contaminates
contaminative
— Adjective
– English
~ making impure by contact or mixing
contemn
— Verb
– English
~ look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
contemplate
— Verb
– English
~ look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought; "contemplate one's navel"
contemplate
— Verb
– English
~ reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"
contemplate
— Verb
– English
~ consider as a possibility; "I contemplated leaving school and taking a full-time job"
contemplate
— Verb
– English
~ think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes; "He is meditating in his study"
contemplation
— Noun
– English
~ a calm, lengthy, intent consideration