pollution
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2.7
- noun
- /pəˈluːʃən/
:
contaminación
- How can these results be used to improve the potential impact of a pollution-prevention information campaign?
- air pollution
- pollution prevention
- water pollution
But instead we should be taxing things like pollution and congestion.
- But instead we should be taxing things like pollution and congestion.
- I cannot be exposed to pollution for extended periods of time.
- Industrial pollution starts in the womb.
- You, you put out more pollution than if you just use the gasoline car.
- Speaker, plastic pollution is a scourge of modern day society.
- I think people agree that, you know, we should restrict pollution.
- OK, We've eliminated a large source of pollution.
- No, no, no, to mass pollution is screaming out.
- The Oh my God particle could be pollution from alien experiments.
- Another example would be pollution, he says.
- It's just really weird the way that they they said pollution was proven.
- The market didn't know it had any value, so pollution couldn't reduce its value.
- If you don't count pollution, pollution is all.
Examples
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Environmental reporting fledged in the 1970s with such pollution issues as acid rain and mercury in fish.
Fiction book (1997) -
The technology exists to reduce the amount of pollution that salmon fish farms generate.
Academic text (1999) -
And once you clean the pollution, it becomes beautiful.
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The problem with it was the pollution it created.
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Well, the cotton industry there is a major source of pollution, so...
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People have become more and more fed up with the pollution in our environment.
Fiction book (1997) -
I cannot be exposed to pollution for extended periods of time.
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No plan to combat climate change can ignore the pollution that Russian industry produces.
Academic text (2011) -
A growing public awareness and concern about controlling water pollution led to significant amendments in 1972.
Academic text (2011) -
Plastic pollution is harming marine life in our oceans.
Synonyms
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4.8
Harmful things that make food, water, or places unsafe
23
9.1
A place made dirty or impure by harmful substances
A state of being made dirty, often of water or land
Antonyms
Compounds
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2.6
Harmful gases, smoke, and small particles in the air that can damage health or nature
- Specialized
1
5.8
A harmful rise in river or lake water temperature caused by hot water from factories
Waste that nature breaks down but can still harm the environment in large amounts
Waste made of things like plastic that do not break down and build up in nature
- Specialized
Very small bits of dirty matter in the air that come from smoke and engines and can harm people's health
How Polluted
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2.7
- Specialized
76
4.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pollution comes from the Latin verb polluere, which means 'to soil' or 'to make dirty'. So, pollution is about making the air, water, or land dirty or harmful, which is why it means the presence of harmful substances in the environment.