[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the act of contaminating, or of making something impure or unsuitable by contact with something unclean, bad, etc.", "the act of contaminating, or of rendering something harmful or unusable by the addition of radioactive material:the contamination of food following a nuclear attack.", "the state of being contaminated:The manufacturer recalled the product because of possible salmonella contamination.", "Rare.something that contaminates a place or substance, as by making it impure, unsuitable, harmful, or unusable; a contaminant .", "Linguistics.an alternation in a linguistic form due to the influence of a related form, as the replacement in English of earlierfemellewithfemalethrough the influence ofmale.the process of forming blends.Compare blend(def9) blend(def9).", "an alternation in a linguistic form due to the influence of a related form, as the replacement in English of earlierfemellewithfemalethrough the influence ofmale.", "the process of forming blends.Compare blend(def9) blend(def9)."]}]