adjective
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made unclean or impure; contaminated
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slang intoxicated; drunk
Other Word Forms
- pollutedness noun
- unpolluted adjective
Etymology
Origin of polluted
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400; pollute, -ed 2
Example Sentences
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People of color like him and his family worked and lived surrounded by the industries that polluted their air, and many still do.
From Los Angeles Times
Some 93% of the world’s children, she said, live in polluted air, and pollution hits home with her own kids, and the asthma that disproportionately afflicts L.A.’s kids.
From Los Angeles Times
Soaring black-market prices of cooking gas in India's capital are pushing poorer families back to wood and coal, raising health risks and worsening air quality in the highly polluted megacity.
From Barron's
Russia's ambassador was summoned by the foreign ministry in protest and shown a bottle of cloudy water from the polluted river.
From BBC
In less than two years, Pasha, as he's known, transformed from an events coordinator and videographer at a primary school in Karabash, one of the most polluted places on earth, to an Oscar nominee.
From BBC
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