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verb

Pollute v. t. (past & past part. polluted; pres. part. polluting)

To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; used of physical or moral defilement. "The land was polluted with blood." "Wickedness... hath polluted the whole earth."

To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

(Jewish Law) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. "Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die." "They have polluted themselves with blood."

Synonyms: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish.

adjective

Pollute adj. Polluted. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Pollute'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pollute" Quotes from Famous Books

... discharges from the tuberculous person are not disinfected, but are thrown into a sewer, privy, river or buried they are a source of danger, and may pollute a ...

— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter

... Then arose Immeasurable carnage: here the sword, There stood the victim, and the victor's arm Wearied of slaughter. Oh, that to thy plains, Pharsalia, might suffice the crimson stream From hosts barbarian, nor other blood Pollute thy fountains' sources! these alone Shall clothe thy pastures with the bones of men! Or if thy fields must run with Roman blood Then spare the nations who in times to come ...

— Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars • Lucan

... replied the young man. "But before me she is as a holy saint of heaven, at whose shrine we may bow down and pray, but whom we cannot pollute with ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 • Various

... any more. We parted, after we'd said goodnight. A few days later I heard she'd left me only to go to a large party, where she drank till morning. Well, I said, as in those days I looked for all that was good in women, she meant well by me, but had to pollute herself ...

— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg

... heard the youth who was barely in his teens indulge in this sin, as though it had been a part of his parental or day-school education. I have heard the young gentleman, so-called, recently returned from the walks of a University, pollute his lips and character with this shameful vice. I have heard the man who laid claim to wealth, to intelligence, to respectability, and to honour, pour forth his swearing words. I have heard the man who has ...

— Talkers - With Illustrations • John Bate

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