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polluted
[ puh-loo-tid ]
adjective
- made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted:
swimming in polluted waters.
- Slang. drunk ( def 1 ).
polluted
/ pəˈluːtɪd /
adjective
- made unclean or impure; contaminated
- slang.intoxicated; drunk
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Other Words From
- pol·luted·ness noun
- unpol·luted adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
In fact, commercial fishing has been suspended entirely because the lake is considered polluted.
Instead, he wanted viewers to grasp that “this spring from which Mother Courage drank death was a polluted one.”
Wetlands protected under the “Clean Water Act of 1972” are being polluted with birch beer precursor chemicals.
We know exactly which leaking tank polluted drinking water in southern West Virginia earlier this year.
“Sometimes I worry what these polluted bodies are doing to the environment, too,” he says.
Her prophets are senseless, men without faith: her priests have polluted the sanctuary, they have acted unjustly against the law.
You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee?
Before the door of the house were set branches of pine or cypress as a warning that the house was polluted by death.
Let it not be polluted with anything dead or impure, that your victuals, boiled in pure water, may be healthy.
Special provision is now made for the using of water that is polluted.
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