Answer to "Contaminates" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word TAINTS which also is the latest solution we found used in LA Times in 2021.

Contaminates crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
TAINTS	73 %	6
POISONS	14 %	7
POLLUTES	14 %	8

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contaminates

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• pollute
• foul
• contaminants
• infects
• poisons
• pollutes
• taints
• contaminant
• contaminations
• contamination
• pollutant
• dust contamination

Crossword Answer definitions

TAINTS noun

1. A contamination, decay or putrefaction, especially in food
2. A mark of disgrace, especially on one's character; blemish
3. Tincture; hue; colour
4. Infection; corruption; deprivation
5. A marker indicating that a variable is unsafe and should be subjected to additional security checks.

TAINTS verb

1. To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally.
2. To spoil (food) by contamination.
3. To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting.
4. To be affected with incipient putrefaction.
5. To mark (a variable) as unsafe, so that operations involving it are subject to additional security checks.
6. To invalidate (a share capital account) by transferring profits into it.

TAINTS noun

1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.
2. 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.

TAINTS verb

1. To damage, as a lance, without breaking it; also, to break, as a lance, but usually in an unknightly or unscientific manner.
2. To hit or touch lightly, in tilting.
3. To thrust ineffectually with a lance.

TAINTS noun

1. 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 TAINTS

• Brands
• Spoils
• Renders impure
• Contaminates
• Mars
• Corrupts
• Adulterates
• Gives a bad name to
• Stigmatizes
• Sullies

More clues leading to the result POISONS

• Pesticides, to pests
• Cyanide and arsenic, e.g.
• Cyanide and hemlock
• Cyanide and arsenic
• Exterminator's supply
• Corrupts
• Contaminates
• Toxicologist's concerns
• Whodunit elements
• Toxins

More clues leading to the result POLLUTES

• Hurts the environment
• Sullies a stream, say
• Contaminates
• Harms the environment
• Fouls
• Befouls the air
• Harms the environment, in a way