Contaminates [verb]

The flag that will not protect its protectors is a dirty rag that contaminates the air in which it waves.

The putrefaction thus engendered contaminates the whole neighbourhood.

The traitor and the spy have in all ages been rightly considered as foul beings who poison the air and whose touch contaminates.

It is, however, a variety of alg not easily detected that contaminates the water.

Ma lady-love don't like to hab me smoke no cigars, kase she says it contaminates ma presence.

A small portion of sulphurous acid, which contaminates it, may be removed by redistillation from a little acetate of lead.

She is the viper turned against the breast of its mother; she is the sick sheep that contaminates the whole herd of her master.

Perhaps because they are themselves innocent, until the great, wicked world contaminates them.

At Bruges a priest of my acquaintance contaminates the holy ciboria and uses them to prepare spells and conjurements.

Possibly this contaminates the water, for there has been a great outbreak of diphtheria, which has been very fatal.