pollute

Speech parts

1. pollute - Adjective

2. pollute - Verb

Meaning

To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.

To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.

Polluted.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

contaminate soil corrupt foul taint debauch vitiate mar sully packer warp blight dirtying damage harm
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Antonyms

wash help better sluice bactericidal hallow
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Hypernyms

colly soil dirty grime begrime bemire

Hyponyms

infect taint

Phrases with the word

to pollute pollute the air

Derivatives

polluted polluting

Examples

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. Margaret Mead

A crime, which, though perhaps not considered by law as the highest, is in truth and in fact, the blackest sin, which can contaminate the hands, or pollute the soul of man. Henry Fielding

Afghanistan is the land of Pashtuns. It always has been, always will be. We are the true Afghans, the pure Afghans, not this Flat-Nose here. His people pollute our homeland, our watan. They dirty our blood. Khaled Hosseini

Words will not pollute the soup. Brazilian Proverb

One dog's piss will not pollute the ocean. French Proverb

The urine of one dog will not pollute the ocean. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

pollutable pollutant pollutant gas pollute the air polluted polluted rain