Contaminate /(kŏn*tăm"ĭ*nāt)/

imp. & p. p. Contaminated; p. pr. & vb. n. Contaminating

1. To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

   Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes?

   I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated.

1. Contaminated; defiled; polluted; tainted.