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Definitions for Pollute

[1] to make foul or unclean, especially with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke.
[2] to make morally unclean; defile.
[3] to render ceremonially impure; desecrate: to pollute a house of worship.
[4] Informal . to render less effective or efficient: The use of inferior equipment has polluted the company's service.
[5] to contaminate, as with poisonous or harmful substances
[6] to make morally corrupt or impure; sully
[7] to desecrate or defile

Words related to Pollute

violate, infect, taint, foul, poison, contaminate, stain, sully, defile, befoul, mar, debase, profane, soil, dishonor, alloy, desecrate, dirty, spoil, debauch

Words nearby Pollute

pollock, jackson, pollster, polltaker, pollucite, pollutant, pollute, polluted, pollution, pollux, polly, pollyanna

Origin of Pollute

1325–75; Middle English polute < Latin pollūtus past participle of polluere to soil, defile, equivalent to pol-, assimilated variant of por- (see pollicitation; here marking the action as complete) + -lū- base of -luere (akin to lutum mud, dirt, lustrum muddy place) + -tus past participle suffix

Other words from Pollute

pol·lut·er , noun
pol·lu·tive , adjective
non·pol·lut·ing , adjective
un·pol·lut·ing , adjective
pol•lut′ er n.

Word origin for Pollute

C14 polute, from Latin polluere to defile

Synonyms for Pollute

contaminate, foul, infect, poison, stain, taint, violate, adulterate, alloy, befoul, besmirch, debase, debauch, defile, deprave, desecrate, dirty, dishonor, mar, profane, soil, spoil, sully, make filthy