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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Polluted \Pol*lut"ed\, adjective Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- {Pol*lut"ed*ly}, adverb -- {Pol*lut"ed*ness}, noun
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pollute \Pol*lute"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Polluted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polluting}.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a preposition 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.
The land was polluted with blood. --Ps. cvi. 38
Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. --2 Esd. xv. 6.
2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.
3. (Jewish Law) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.
Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. --Num. xviii. 32.
They have polluted themselves with blood. --Lam. iv. 14.
Syn: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
polluted
adjective: 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
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