DECONTAMINATE

decontaminate

(verb) rid of contamination; “The soil around the housing development had to be decontaminated by the city”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

decontaminate (third-person singular simple present decontaminates, present participle decontaminating, simple past and past participle decontaminated)

(transitive) To remove contamination from (something), rendering it safe.

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

23 December 2024

QUANDONG

(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit


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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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