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DECONTAMINATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they decontaminate ... he / she / it decontaminates
Past simple: decontaminated
Past participle: decontaminated
-ing form: decontaminating
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rid of contamination
Example:
The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "decontaminate" is one way to...):
clean; cleanse (clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Antonym:
contaminate (make radioactive by adding radioactive material)
Derivation:
decontamination (the removal of contaminants)
