polluted

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
polluted
    adj 1: rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution; "had
           to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and
           streams" [syn: {contaminated}, {polluted}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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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