decontaminate

English

Etymology

de- +‎ contaminate

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /diːkənˈtæmɪneɪt/

Verb

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

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

Related terms

• decontamination

Translations

to remove contamination from (something), rendering it safe

• Danish: rense, desinficere
• French: décontaminer (fr)
• Irish: dí-éilligh, díthruailligh
• Japanese: 除染する (ja) (じょせんする, josen suru)
• Luxembourgish: entgëften
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dekontaminere

• Russian: дезактиви́ровать (ru) (dezaktivírovatʹ)
• Spanish: descontaminar (es)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

decontaminate

1. inflection of decontaminare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

decontaminate f pl

1. feminine plural of decontaminato