Dictionary Entry
pollute
pollute is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.
- 2transitive verb
To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.
- 3transitive verb
To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse.
- 4adjective
Polluted.
- 5verb
make impure
"The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
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