'Pollute' definitions:
Definition of 'pollute'
From: WordNet
verb
Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]
Definition of 'Pollute'
From: GCIDE
- Pollute \Pol*lute"\, a. [L. pollutus.] Polluted. [R.] --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pollute'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- The land was polluted with blood. --Ps. cvi. 38 [1913 Webster]
- Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth. --2 Esd. xv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Jewish Law) To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. [1913 Webster]
- Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. --Num. xviii. 32. [1913 Webster]
- They have polluted themselves with blood. --Lam. iv. 14. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pollute'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abuse,
- adulterate,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- alloy,
- bastardize,
- befoul,
- benasty,
- bewitch,
- blight,
- booze up,
- boozify,
- canker,
- cheapen,
- coarsen,
- condemn,
- confound,
- contaminate,
- convert,
- corrupt,
- crock,
- crucify,
- curse,
- cut,
- damage,
- debase,
- debauch,
- defalcate,
- defile,
- deflower,
- degenerate,
- degrade,
- denaturalize,
- denature,
- deprave,
- desecrate,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- devalue,
- dilute,
- dirty,
- disadvantage,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- divert,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doctor,
- doctor up,
- doom,
- embezzle,
- envenom,
- fortify,
- foul,
- fuddle,
- get into trouble,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- impair,
- infect,
- injure,
- jinx,
- lace,
- maladminister,
- maltreat,
- menace,
- mess,
- mess up,
- misapply,
- misappropriate,
- misemploy,
- mishandle,
- mismanage,
- mistreat,
- misuse,
- molest,
- nasty,
- outrage,
- overtake,
- peculate,
- persecute,
- pervert,
- pickle,
- pilfer,
- plaster,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- prejudice,
- profane,
- prostitute,
- ravage,
- ravish,
- savage,
- scathe,
- soil,
- souse,
- spike,
- spoil,
- stain,
- stew,
- stone,
- sully,
- swack,
- taint,
- tamper with,
- tarnish,
- threaten,
- tipsify,
- torment,
- torture,
- twist,
- ulcerate,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- vulgarize,
- warp,
- water,
- water down,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong