pollutedadj.
/pəˈl(j)uːtᵻd/, U.S. /pəˈludəd/ 1. Defiled, made impure or unclean, profane; tainted, sinful. Now esp.: (of the air, water, land, etc.) contaminated with noxious or poisonous substances; affected by excessive light, noise, organic waste, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective]
mixedc1300
pollutea1382
infectc1384
unpurea1398
fouledc1400
drossyc1420
polluteda1425
defouledc1440
dreggyc1440
feculent1471
filed1483
violate?c1500
feding1502
fly-blown1528
cankered1530
defiled1530
contagious1547
dregful1552
contaminatea1555
menstruous1560
dreggish1561
conspurcate1563
empoisoned1581
inquinated?1593
pollutionate1593
fly-bitten1598
impure1598
druggy1599
contaminated1609
transboundary1918
the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > spotted
spotteda1325
spotty1340
splotty1382
scawed1398
engoutedc1450
dropped1611
measled1634
fly-bitten1639
maculated1646
bedrop1658
polluted1667
diced1671
puncticular1671
pantherine1753
parded1806
guttular1811
naevose1847
pellucido-punctate1847
measly1849
notate1857
maculiferous1863
spot-skin1871
naevous1890
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lev. vii. 20 A pollutid soule..schal perische fro hise puplis.
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 53 (MED) Þe body and blod of Crist is tretid wiþ foul hands and polutid conciens.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxiii. 11 The prophetes and the prestes them selues are poluted Ypocrytes.
1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xx. 346 We haue happely forsaken..that polluted Church, that simoniacall temple.
1624 J. Taylor Praise Cleane Linnen Ep. Ded. sig. A3 Cleanser, Clearer, and Reformer of Deformed and polluted Linnen.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 110 Resolving from thenceforth To leave them to thir own polluted wayes. View more context for this quotation
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 67 It was..shut out of the Walls of the City, as an execrable and polluted place.
1777 J. Logan in Sc. Paraphr. viii. iii Can troubled and polluted springs a hallow'd stream afford?
1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xvii. 232 What can a ruined soul, like mine, effect towards the redemption of other souls?—or a polluted soul, towards their purification?
1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. v. 109 She has been using that polluted water for the last three weeks—and poisoning a whole village.
1909 Catholic Encycl. V. 126/2 In the fourth book he refutes Parmenianus's proofs from Scripture that the sacrifice of a sinner is polluted.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xvii. 417 Others, the so-called ‘rat-tailed’ maggots, are found in polluted ponds.
2000 Daily Tel. 9 Feb. 19/4 Avoid smoky or polluted atmospheres which can damage airways and make infection more likely.
2. slang (originally U.S.). Intoxicated, drunk; (also) under the influence of drugs.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk
fordrunkenc897
drunkena1050
cup-shottenc1330
drunka1400
inebriate1497
overseenc1500
liquor1509
fou1535
nase?1536
full1554
intoxicate1554
tippled1564
intoxicated1576
pepst1577
overflown1579
whip-cat1582
pottical1586
cup-shota1593
fox-drunk1592
lion-drunk1592
nappy1592
sack-sopped1593
in drink1598
disguiseda1600
drink-drowned1600
daggeda1605
pot-shotten1604
tap-shackled1604
high1607
bumpsy1611
foxed1611
in one's cups1611
liquored1611
love-pot1611
pot-sick1611
whift1611
owl-eyed1613
fapa1616
hota1616
inebriated1615
reeling ripea1616
in one's (or the) pots1618
scratched1622
high-flown?1624
pot-shot1627
temulentive1628
ebrious1629
temulent1629
jug-bitten1630
pot-shaken1630
toxed1635
bene-bowsiea1637
swilled1637
paid1638
soaken1651
temulentious1652
flagonal1653
fuddled1656
cut1673
nazzy1673
concerned1678
whittled1694
suckey1699
well-oiled1701
tippeda1708
tow-row1709
wet1709
swash1711
strut1718
cocked1737
cockeyed1737
jagged1737
moon-eyed1737
rocky1737
soaked1737
soft1737
stewed1737
stiff1737
muckibus1756
groggy1770
muzzeda1788
muzzya1795
slewed1801
lumpy1810
lushy1811
pissed1812
blue1813
lush1819
malty1819
sprung1821
three sheets in the wind1821
obfuscated1822
moppy1823
ripe1823
mixed1825
queer1826
rosined1828
shot in the neck1830
tight1830
rummy1834
inebrious1837
mizzled1840
obflisticated1840
grogged1842
pickled1842
swizzled1843
hit under the wing1844
obfusticatedc1844
ebriate1847
pixilated1848
boozed1850
ploughed1853
squiffy?1855
buffy1858
elephant trunk1859
scammered1859
gassed1863
fly-blown1864
rotten1864
shot1864
ebriose1871
shicker1872
parlatic1877
miraculous1879
under the influence1879
ginned1881
shickered1883
boiled1886
mosy1887
to be loaded for bear(s)1888
squiffeda1890
loaded1890
oversparred1890
sozzled1892
tanked1893
orey-eyed1895
up the (also a) pole1897
woozy1897
toxic1899
polluted1900
lit-up1902
on (also upon) one's ear1903
pie-eyed1903
pifflicated1905
piped1906
spiflicated1906
jingled1908
skimished1908
tin hat1909
canned1910
pipped1911
lit1912
peloothered1914
molo1916
shick1916
zigzag1916
blotto1917
oiled-up1918
stung1919
stunned1919
bottled1922
potted1922
rotto1922
puggled1923
puggle1925
fried1926
crocked1927
fluthered1927
lubricated1927
whiffled1927
liquefied1928
steamed1929
mirackc1930
overshot1931
swacked1932
looped1934
stocious1937
whistled1938
sauced1939
mashed1942
plonked1943
stone1945
juiced1946
buzzed1952
jazzed1955
schnockered1955
honkers1957
skunked1958
bombed1959
zonked1959
bevvied1960
mokus1960
snockered1961
plotzed1962
over the limit1966
the worse for wear1966
wasted1968
wired1970
zoned1971
blasted1972
Brahms and Liszt?1972
funked up1976
trousered1977
motherless1980
tired and emotional1981
ratted1982
rat-arsed1984
wazzed1990
mullered1993
twatted1993
bollocksed1994
lashed1996
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > effects of drugs > [adjective]
intoxicated1576
drunk1585
besotted1831
drugged1871
dopey1896
doped1903
piped1906
lit1912
loaded1923
high1932
polluted1938
stone1945
straight1946
impaired1951
on the nod1951
buzzed1952
stoned1953
hung1958
strung out1959
zonked1959
shot1964
out of (also off) one's bird1966
ripped1966
wiped1966
amped1967
tanked1968
wrecked1968
whacked out1969
wired1970
jagged1973
funked up1976
annihilated1980
junked out1982
obliterated1984
caned1992
wankered1992
twatted1993
1900 G. Ade More Fables 171 ‘It may be that I was a mite Polluted,’ he suggested. ‘You were a teeny bit Pickled about Two..,’ said Mr. Byrd.
1938 Amer. Speech 13 185/2 High..usually infers that the addict is noticeably under the influence of drugs... The same is true of the following equivalents:..lit, polluted, shot up.
1974 P. G. Wodehouse Aunts aren't Gentlemen iii. 20 I was helping a pal to celebrate the happy conclusion of love's young dream, and it may be that I became a mite polluted.
1991 R. Doyle Van (1992) 81 Polluted out of their heads.
Derivatives
poˈllutedly adv. [compare earlier pollutionately adv. at pollutionate adj. Derivatives] rare so as to be polluted; in a polluted condition.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adverb] > with pollution
pollutedly1635
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells i. 28 Pollutedly into the world I came; Sad and perplext I liv'd.
1992 S. Hafner Nice Girls Don't Drink i. 39 When I was young she would be in the street, pollutedly drunk, men would be abusing her.
poˈllutedness n. rare the quality or state of being polluted.
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society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition
pollutionc1422
spottiness1574
defiledness1607
tainture1609
pollutednessa1617
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 344 There is naturally a kinde of pollutednesse in the lips of man, whereof Isaiah complayned.
1852 H. Melville Pierre xxiv. 443 Thy depravity, thy pollutedness, is that of a fiend!
1995 Contemp. Sociol. 24 622/2 Dismissing the view that women's separation from men during their menstrual cycle was symptomatic of their pollutedness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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