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Synonyms for polluted
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : puh-loo-tid |
Phonetic Transcription : pəˈlu tɪd |
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Définition of polluted
Origin :- c.1400, "rendered impure or unclean," past participle adjective from pollute (v.). Meaning "drunk" is from 1912, American English slang; ecological sense is from 1888.
- verb make dirty; corrupt
- He worships every handsome woman, who will allow herself to be polluted by his incense.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- We do not say that art should be despised by the novelist; we only contend that it should not be polluted.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various
- This, it is said, is an effective arrangement for drawing off the polluted air of a room.
- Extract from : « Rural Hygiene » by Henry N. Ogden
- But heresies have polluted every church, and schisms are the fruit of disputation.
- Extract from : « The Pioneers » by James Fenimore Cooper
- How long, may we ask, is our land to be polluted with such abominations?
- Extract from : « The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 » by Various
- Would to heaven my being were not derived from such a polluted source.
- Extract from : « Ernest Linwood » by Caroline Lee Hentz
- From that hour she would abhor him, and shrink from his polluted hand.
- Extract from : « Trail's End » by George W. Ogden
- And of this Pylades also I will say that he is polluted in like manner with thee.
- Extract from : « Myths and Legends of All Nations » by Various
- I was degraded and polluted by the confessional just as you and all the priests of Rome are.
- Extract from : « The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional » by Father Chiniquy
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