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POLLUTED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution
Example:
polluted lakes and streams
Synonyms:
contaminated; polluted
Classified under:
Similar:
impure (combined with extraneous elements)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb pollute
Context examples:
“I will allow you to watch by it once more, but if this happens for the third time then the well is polluted and you can no longer remain with me.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
In 2016, the report estimated that 600,000 children died from acute lower respiratory infections caused by polluted air.
(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)
The researchers suggest this was likely because less educated men work outside more in China and are thus more exposed to polluted air.
(Pollution Linked to Significant Decline in Human Cognition, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It was as if he had seen the sun fall out of the sky, or had seen worshipped purity polluted.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For older women, breathing air that is heavily polluted by vehicle exhaust and other sources of fine particulates nearly doubles the likelihood of developing dementia, finds a study published Tuesday.
(The Surprising Link between Air Pollution, Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
At the place where the carriage stopped there stood an ancient temple, esteemed to be the largest in the whole kingdom; which, having been polluted some years before by an unnatural murder, was, according to the zeal of those people, looked upon as profane, and therefore had been applied to common use, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Ultrafine aerosol particles found in polluted urban air can contribute to more intense storms in the Amazon rainforest, with potential knock-on effects for weather and climate patterns in the region and beyond, researchers have warned.
(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)
Pulling her beautiful hair over her face, as the leper of old his mantle, she wailed out:—"Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almighty shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the Judgment Day."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
In the most polluted urban areas, trees had a particularly strong association with fewer emergency asthma cases.
(Asthma Attacks Reduced in Tree-Lined Urban Neighborhoods, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
