Polluted

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Polluted \Pol*lut"ed\, a.
     Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. --
     {Pol*lut"ed*ly}, adv. -- {Pol*lut"ed*ness}, n.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Pollute \Pol*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polluted}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Polluting}.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to
     defile, to pollute, from a prep. appearing only in comp. +
     luere to wash. See {Position}, {Lave}.]
     1. To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to
        soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral
        defilement.
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              The land was polluted with blood.     --Ps. cvi. 38
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              Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. --2
                                                    Esd. xv. 6.
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     2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.
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     3. (Jewish Law) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify
        or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social
        intercourse.
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              Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the
              children of Israel, lest ye die.      --Num. xviii.
                                                    32.
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              They have polluted themselves with blood. --Lam. iv.
                                                    14.
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     Syn: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate;
          debauch; dishonor; ravish.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  polluted
       adj : rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had to
             boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and
             streams" [syn: {contaminated}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  103 Moby Thesaurus words for "polluted":
     abandoned, afflicted, bad, bad for, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy,
     canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, common, contaminated, corrupt,
     corrupted, crocked, crocko, debased, debauched, decadent, defiled,
     degenerate, degraded, depraved, disguised, dissolute, drunk,
     elevated, foul, fried, fuddled, half-seas over, harmful, high,
     illuminated, impure, inebriated, infected, injurious, insalubrious,
     insanitary, lit, lit up, loaded, lubricated, lushy,
     morally polluted, morbific, muddled, muzzy, noisome, nonkosher,
     noxious, oiled, organized, pathogenic, peccant, perverted,
     pestiferous, pickled, pie-eyed, pissed, pissy-eyed, pixilated,
     plastered, potted, profligate, raddled, reprobate,
     ritually unclean, rotten, septic, shellacked, skunk-drunk, smashed,
     soaked, soused, squiffy, steeped in iniquity, stewed, stinko,
     swacked, tainted, tanked, tight, tref, unbathed, unclean,
     uncleanly, unhealthful, unhealthy, unhygienic, unpure, unsanitary,
     unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unwashed, unwholesome, unwiped,
     vice-corrupted, vitiated, warped