polluted 1 of 2

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
  • Carnivorous mammals can contract it by coming into contact with infected birds or a contaminated environment.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Salmonella can be spread via contaminated water errantly used to irrigate crops, according to the CDC.
    Ahjané Forbes, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of contaminated
Verb
  • Poisoned Data, Poisoned Outcomes One of the biggest dangers in the AI supply chain is poisoned training data.
    Steve Wilson, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Haunting pictures of rows of small bodies covered in white sheets—some of the 400 children who were poisoned in the attack—became emblematic of the Assad regime’s cruelty.
    Gregory D. Koblentz, Foreign Affairs, 19 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
  • In a cinematic landscape laden with diluted IP projects, Jenkins is hardly the first filmmaker working as a cog in a billion-dollar machine.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
  • As bowl games outside the College Football Playoff have become more diluted, organizers have sought new ways to steal the spotlight.
    Peter Burke, Fox News, 16 Dec. 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
  • Despite the mixed responses, the image continues to fuel debate across social media.
    Hannah Parry, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Indeed, the incoming Trump administration’s efforts to curb government spending and improve efficiency could have mixed effects.
    Michael Khouw, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
Definition of mixed
Adjective
  • Pop entered a renaissance thanks to smart young women sharing impure thoughts.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2024
  • Wad, perhaps the most abundant, is a dark-brown-to-black, very soft, earthy mineral that is commonly considered an impure hydrous oxide of manganese.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of impure
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