polluted
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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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