0 past simple and past participle of decontaminate --
1 to remove dangerous substances from something: --
It has to be decontaminated and, when it has been decontaminated, we shall put it up for sale as a whole.
But this factory has to be decontaminated before it can be used for any other purpose.
Surely those who have been handling bulldozers and carting quicklime to places where the outbreak has taken place should be decontaminated.
Once sites are decontaminated, the improved land can be used as ordinary building land.
I am not concerned with the argument that if it stays in the sea long enough it can be decontaminated or made decent.
Anyway, our view is that the public schools do not need to be decontaminated in this way.
Three days after the explosion, 100 of those participants were taken into the contaminated area and then, after tests, were decontaminated.
Information specifically on decontaminated land which has subsequently been used for housing developments is not available centrally.
