Definitions
Make air, water, or land dirty or harmful.
Word origin
From Middle English polluten, borrowed from Latin pollūtum, from pollūtus (“no longer virgin", "unchaste”), perfect passive participle of polluō (“soil", "defile", "dishonor”).
Used in a sentence
“The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.”
“The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.”
“But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Contaminate”7 letters
02“Make dirty”7 letters
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