Verb: pollute pu'loot
- Make impure in a bad way; make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted substance
"The industrial wastes polluted the lake";
- foul, contaminate
- Make imperfect
"nothing polluted her beauty";
- mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate
Derived forms: pollutes, polluted, polluting
Type of: alter, begrime, bemire [archaic], change, colly [archaic], damage, dirty, grime, modify, soil
Encyclopedia: Pollute