polluted
- adjective
- /pəˈluːtɪd/
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contaminado
- The river became polluted due to industrial waste being dumped into it.
The soul was eternal, but the soul was imprisoned in this polluted, changeable body.
- The soul was eternal, but the soul was imprisoned in this polluted, changeable body.
- You should not have to live in a polluted community just because you're poor, OK?
- It was it was not as polluted as it all is now, but it has to be polluted now.
- So a scope on top of a roof in apartment in Tehran, which is highly light polluted.
- We have also dark sky communities where people are trying to change lights to make the area more sky friendly, less light polluted.
Examples
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You know, in many places, the air is so polluted that kids have never seen stars and don't believe that there are stars.
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Lake Erie was so polluted that it set, it caught fire, was so polluted, and now there's fish swimming in it because people cared.
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Will London still be polluted by buses and tubes running?
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Well polluted water doesn't do us much good.
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You should not have to live in a polluted community just because you're poor, OK?
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It is for example more common with breast cancer in a light polluted area than in dark area.
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And that's why, that's why you must feel so sad about the way some of these holy rivers have been polluted and damned.
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It's not going, you're not going to have to worry about the, the waterways being polluted by, by runoff.
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Many people avoid swimming in polluted waters for health reasons.
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Trees struggle to grow in areas where the soil is polluted with chemicals.
Synonyms
525
1.0
Not clean or covered with dirt
380
4.0
Containing poison that can cause harm or death
Something that becomes unsafe because it touches something dirty or harmful
Dirty and polluted with waste or unwanted material
Spoiled and unsafe because it has rot or something harmful
Antonyms
How Polluted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Polluted comes from the old Latin verb polluere, which means 'to make dirty' or 'to soil'. Think of pollution as making water or air dirty or unsafe, so when something is polluted it has been made harmful by dirt, waste, or chemicals.