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Word Meanings - POLLUTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.

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  • DECAY
    To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
  • PURIFY
    1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
  • CORRECTLY
    In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
  • VITIATE
    1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
  • CORRUPTIONIST
    One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
  • INFECTIOUSLY
    In an infectious manner. Shak.
  • CORRUPTIBLE
    1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
  • DEFILADE
    To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
  • MEPHITIC; MEPHITICAL
    1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. Mephitic air , carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid,
  • INFECTIVE
    Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
  • CORRECTORY
    Containing or making correction; corrective.
  • POLLUTE
    To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
  • PUTRID
    or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten: cf. F. putride. 1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction. 2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed
  • TAINTWORM
    A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
  • CORRECTIFY
    To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
  • DEFILE
    To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
  • PROFLIGATENESS
    The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
  • CORRUPTION
    1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
  • INFECTIOUS
    Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
  • TAINTURE
    Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
  • OBNOXIOUS
    1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
  • REINFECT
    To infect again.
  • DISINFECT
    To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
  • INCORRECT
    1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
  • UNCORRUPTIBLE
    Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.

 

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