The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word TAINT , but the solution may also be INFECT which is one of the most recent solution (2021 in New York Times).
Contaminate crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
---|---|---|
TAINT | 67 % | 5 |
INFECT | 16 % | 6 |
DEFILE | 5 % | 6 |
POLLUTE | 4 % | 7 |
POISON | 3 % | 6 |
DEBASE | 3 % | 6 |
ADULTERATE | 1 % | 10 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contaminate
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- pollute
- foul
- taint
- polluted
- spoil
- spread
- affect
- enter
- pollution
- poison
- infect
- contamination
Crossword Answer definitions
TAINT noun- A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
- A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
- Tincture; hue; colour
- Infection; corruption; deprivation
- A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.
- To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
- To spoil (food) by contamination.
- To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
- To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
- To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
- To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.
- A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
- An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance in an encounter in a dishonorable or unscientific manner.
- To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
- To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
- To thrust ineffectually with a lance.
- The perineum.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result TAINT
More clues leading to the result INFECT
More clues leading to the result DEFILE
- Narrow mountain pass
- Contaminate
- Make dirty
- Besmirch
- Pollute
- Sully
- Taint
- Sully, as a reputation
- Tarnish, as a reputation
- Dirty
More clues leading to the result POLLUTE
- "Give a hoot, don't ___"
- What clean energy doesn't do
- Foul the air
- Defile
- Taint
- Foul
- Contaminate
- Litter, say
- Contaminate, as water
- What Woodsy Owl asked you not to do
More clues leading to the result POISON
- Lethal stuff
- Contaminate
- Hemlock, for one
- Skull-and-crossbones stuff
- What Mr. Yuk labels
- Warning label word
- Word seen on a skull and crossbones
- Corrupt
- Taint
- Whodunit weapon
More clues leading to the result DEBASE
- Contaminate
- Lower in character
- Take away the dignity of
- Humiliate
- Reduce in value
- Vilify
- Lower
- Adulterate
- Lower in quality
- Corrupt morally