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Variant of decontaminate

decontaminate Definition

de·con·tami·nate (-tam′ə nāt′)

transitive verb decontaminated -·nat′ed, decontaminating -·nat′·ing

to rid of a polluting or harmful substance, as poison gas, radioactive products, etc.

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decontaminating Usage Examples

Object

  • land: Similarly, you could be held responsible for decontaminating land affected by leaks of hazardous substances from your factory.
  • area: They may be used for decontaminating any area with blood spillage.
  • equipment: Designed to carry a full range of clean up, containment and decontaminating equipment this service is available 24 hours a day.
  • casualty: Today we were going to carry out the procedure for decontaminating a casualty.
  • personnel: The IRUs also carried a unit for decontaminating personnel from the emergency services.