contaminate, taint, pollute, defile mean to make impure or unclean. contaminate implies intrusion of or contact with dirt or foulness from an outside source. taint stresses the loss of purity or cleanliness …

Some beaches are very polluted and it would not be reasonable for us to put the public at risk. Polluted rivers that run through highly populated regions eventually make their way into the seas.

POLLUTED definition: made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted. See examples of polluted used in a sentence.

Anything that's polluted is ruined and dirty — it's been contaminated by something dangerous or even deadly. It's not safe to eat fish caught in a polluted river. The adjective polluted is obviously a close …

polluted (pəˈluːtɪd) adj 1. made unclean or impure; contaminated 2. slang US intoxicated; drunk

Definition of pollute verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. to add dirty or harmful substances to land, air, water, etc. so that it is no longer pleasant or safe to use. pollute something …

If water, air, or land is polluted, it has been made dirty by poisonous substances. ...foul polluted water.

POLLUTE definition: 1. to make an area or substance, usually air, water, or soil, dirty or harmful to people, animals…. Learn more.

POLLUTE definition: to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty. See examples of pollute used in a sentence.

Synonyms for POLLUTED: contaminated, thinned, diluted, dilute, tainted, adulterated, mixed, impure; Antonyms of POLLUTED: unpolluted, pure, uncontaminated, untainted, fine, undiluted, …