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pol⋅lut⋅ed

  [puh-loo-tid]
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–adjective
1. made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters.
2. Slang. drunk.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME; see pollute, -ed 2

Related forms:
pol⋅lut⋅ed⋅ness, noun

pol⋅lute

  [puh-loot]
–verb (used with object), -lut⋅ed, -lut⋅ing.
1. to make foul or unclean, esp. with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
2. to make morally unclean; defile.
3. to render ceremonially impure; desecrate: to pollute a house of worship.
4. Informal. to render less effective or efficient: The use of inferior equipment has polluted the company's service.
Origin:
1325–75; ME polute < L pollūtus ptp. of polluere to soil, defile, equiv. to pol-, assimilated var. of por- (see pollicitation; here marking the action as complete) + -lū- base of -luere (akin to lutum mud, dirt, lustrum muddy place) + -tus ptp. suffix

Related forms:
pol⋅lut⋅er, noun
pol⋅lu⋅tive, adjective

Synonyms:
1. soil, befoul. 2. taint, contaminate, vitiate, corrupt, debase, deprave.

Antonyms:
1, 2. purify.
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pol·lute   (pə-lōōt')   
tr.v.   pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes
  1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate.
  2. To make less suitable for an activity, especially by the introduction of unwanted factors: The stadium lights polluted the sky around the observatory.
  3. To render impure or morally harmful; corrupt.
  4. To make ceremonially impure; profane: "Churches and altars were polluted by atrocious murders" (Edward Gibbon).

[Middle English polluten, from Latin polluere, pollūt-.]
pol·lut'er n.
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Polluted

Pol*lut"ed\, a. Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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