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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
  • Usually, these symptoms start within 24 hours of eating contaminated food and last for one to three days.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Whether its lead from old buildings, arsenic from contaminated food or strontium fallout from a nuclear explosion, heavy metals that enter the body pose a serious health threat.
    Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of contaminated
Verb
  • Mossad agents using fake Canadian passports poisoned Mashaal outside of Hamas' office in the capital Amman by holding a device to his ear.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Predators, like foxes, bald eagles and coyotes, can be poisoned from eating that mouse or rat, Vermiglio-Kaplanek said.
    Gina Lee Castro, Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of poisoned
Verb
  • At the beginning of the season, Elrond felt that the rings given the elves are tainted.
    Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The ruling by the Nevada Supreme Court that dismissed the 18 count indictment this week agreed with Chasing Horse's defense team's argument that a definition of grooming presented to the grand jury without expert testimony tainted the state's case.
    Sean Keane, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2024
Definition of tainted
Adjective
  • Net income for the quarter was $16.2 million, or $0.36 per diluted common share, compared to $20.7 million, or $0.46 per diluted common share, in the same quarter of the previous year.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
  • For the nine months, the loss narrowed to $55.3 million, or 50 cents a diluted share, from $56.6 million, or 54 cents, a year ago.
    Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 5 Nov. 2024
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
  • Early research has also explored GLP-1 drugs for nicotine and opioid addiction, with mixed results.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
  • The City Council’s last two appointments saw mixed results in this year’s election.
    Devan Patel, The Mercury News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of mixed
Adjective
  • If impure quartz is used, the outside materials can hamper the effectiveness of the transistor.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
  • There was also the upset about Ryan, who shows her breasts—a sweetheart made impure through pulp fiction.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2024
Definition of impure
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