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Definition of Pollute
1. Verb. Make impure. "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
Specialized synonyms: Infect, Taint
Generic synonyms: Begrime, Bemire, Colly, Dirty, Grime, Soil
Derivative terms: Contaminant, Contamination, Contamination, Contamination, Contaminative, Pollutant, Polluter, Pollution, Pollution, Pollution
Definition of Pollute
1. v. t. To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.
2. a. Polluted.
Definition of Pollute
1. Verb. (transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor. ¹
3. Verb. (dated) To corrupt or profane ¹
4. Adjective. (rare) Polluted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pollute
1. to make unclean or impure [v -LUTED, -LUTING, -LUTES]
Medical Definition of Pollute
1. 1. 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." 2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor. 3. 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." (Num. Xviii. 32) "They have polluted themselves with blood." (Lam. Iv. 14) Synonym: To defile, soil, contaminate, corrupt, taint, vitiate, debauch, dishonor, ravish. Origin: L. Pollutus, p. P. Of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a prep. Appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See Position, Lave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollute
Literary usage of Pollute
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Easements by John Leybourn Goddard (1904)
"... is a Right to natural right; but an adverse right may be acquired by pollute
air. a landowner to pollute the air which flows to the land of a neighbour. ..."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... there is but one word on every lip: ' Washington? and one sentiment on every
heart : vengeance on the tyrants who pollute the Capital of the Republic I" ..."
3. Modern American Law: A Systematic and Comprehensive Commentary on the by Eugene Allen Gilmore, William Charles Wermuth (1914)
"Right to pollute or make deposits in stream. ... This right reasonably to pollute
a stream applies only to running streams and where, through want of repair ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"... is a contempt of the highest order as tending to pollute the source of justice;'
and any endeavour to intimidate a witness from giving evidence for the ..."
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