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adjective

Definition of pollutednext
as in contaminated
containing foreign or lower-grade substances called in to clean up the polluted stream

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polluted

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verb

past tense of pollute
as in poisoned
to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable outmoded factories polluting the air

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polluted
  1. contaminated
  2. poisoned
  3. tainted
  4. diluted
  5. dilute
  6. adulterated
  7. mixed
  8. impure
Adjective
  • Avoid Touching Your Face Norovirus spreads easily when viral particles from contaminated surfaces make their way into your mouth, nose, or eyes.
    David Nikel, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Residents should also be aware that home water treatment devices are not certified to make extremely contaminated water safe.
    Andrew J. Whelton, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of contaminated
Verb
  • Drugs, success, and conflicting personalities had poisoned members’ relationships.
    Aaron Gilbreath, SPIN, 31 Dec. 2024
  • In times of crisis, these individuals may be offered or pushed into leadership positions that are precarious, at best, and poisoned, at worst.
    Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
Definition of poisoned
Verb
  • Amazon objected to the 2022 warehouse election results, alleging the Amazon Labor Union and the federal labor board had tainted the vote.
    CBS News, CBS News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • Some see all Russians and their cultural heritage as irredeemably tainted by imperial thinking, a view heavily influenced by post-colonial studies in American academia.
    Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2024
Definition of tainted
Adjective
  • Before pruning the rest of the tree, sanitize your pruners by dipping the blades into a diluted bleach solution or a cup of 70% isopropyl alcohol.
    Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Unlike human identities managed by centralized IAM systems, NHIs are often created ad hoc by various teams, leading to inconsistent governance and diluted accountability.
    Gregory Webb, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of diluted
Adjective
  • Vinegar, which is really dilute acetic acid, will help the milk curdle by further denaturing the whey proteins and neutralizing negative charges at the surface of casein micelles.
    Liz Roth-Johnson, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2013
  • However toxic a substance may be, the amount of exposure received by the general population is very dilute.
    George Johnson, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2013
Definition of dilute
Adjective
  • The company in 2020 pleaded guilty to distributing adulterated ice-cream products and agreed to pay a fine over the outbreak.
    Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And while most of those overdoses involved the illicit synthetic opioid fentanyl, experts say that an adulterated and contaminated drug supply is also leading to deaths.
    Nadia Kounang, CNN, 17 Mar. 2022
Definition of adulterated
Adjective
  • One key issue is the company’s mixed growth in the commercial sector via its Foundry platform which is designed for commercial customers in industries like manufacturing, retail, and healthcare.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Streamers also use them to watch content that's geo-blocked on services like Netflix, with mixed results.
    Chloe Albanesius, PCMAG, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of mixed
Adjective
  • Falwell, among other notable preachers, criticized Carter's interview with Playboy as an example of voicing impure thoughts.
    Liam Adams, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
  • Pop entered a renaissance thanks to smart young women sharing impure thoughts.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of impure
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