1Mixed with foreign matter; adulterated.

1. 1.1 Dirty.
   a parasite that thrives in impure water

   Example sentencesExamples

   • They clean the impure water from the impurities and chlorine makes water fit for drinking.
   • Any blood found to be impure or infected with any disease is discarded.
   • Breast milk is always sterile, unlike the one served in bottles that could be contaminated because of mixing impure water.
   • After all, few things can be more insidious than impure water, since water is one of the natural resources we take for granted.
   • In the developed world, bottled water owes part of its popularity to the view that tap water is impure, contaminated, and hence risky.
   • People develop many ailments due to impure water.
   • When the powder was mixed with impure water, large numbers of babies got sick.
   • The water is particularly impure and that's one of the reasons that many hotels are choosing to evacuate their residents.
   • The author also claims that impure water can certainly make you sick, but the vast majority of travelers' intestinal symptoms are due to poor food handling practices.
   • But the odds are higher that I will suffer immediate and drastic consequence from rotten food or impure water than I will from anger, spite and bitter words.
   • The troops, already debilitated by the impure drinking water and hunger on the long, hot march from Batesville, were quickly overcome with malaria, as had been predicted.
   • It was a well-known fact that imperfect drainage, impure water, overcharged graveyards and want of ventilation, which was usual in places like this, carried the cholera germs.
   • A woman in Stoney Creek, Adelaide Hoodless, suffered the loss of her baby son as a result of impure milk.
   • This particular chapter starts with the classification of water and goes on to describe how water gets impure or polluted, modes and methods of purification of water and a host of other topics.
   • The missiles that fly are also schools that have not been built, water supplies that remain impure and diseases that stay uncured.
   • What can he say about the FDA, an agency that keeps us safe from impure food and poisonous pharmaceuticals?
   • Although steel scrap is legal trade, the waste, if indeed it arrived, would have been hugely impure.
   • In Africa like most third world countries, most of the water consumed is impure.
   • These deaths are a result of inadequate medical supplies, impure water and nutritional deficiencies.
   • Some of these causes are difficult to remove because they are created by impure air, pollution from industry and motor vehicles.

   Synonyms

   contaminated, polluted, tainted, infected, sullied, defiled, unwholesome, poisoned

   dirty, filthy, unclean, foul

   unhygienic, unsanitary, insanitary

   literary befouled

   rare feculent
2. 1.2 (of a colour) mixed with another colour.

2Morally wrong, especially in sexual matters.

1. 2.1 Defiled or contaminated according to ritual prescriptions.
   groups seen as impure included those possessed by demons

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Jesus seems neither to have confirmed nor to have denied that eating impure food leads to ritual defilement.
   • They smoked cigarettes or drank water using their left hand, which is considered impure.
   • Rabbinical authorities have given the idea its approval on the grounds that it could be a life-saving measure even though pigs are also considered impure by Jews.
   • The Pariyars' low status is continually emphasized through association with one of the most impure and contaminating phenomena of all in Hinduism - death.
   • In actual fact, it was because the Catholic Church - until very recently - abhorred women being near the altar or singing in Church, because of all that impure, blood thing.
   • A pleasing compromise position was that the ritually impure might handle such coins through a layer of cloth; but could unbelievers be relied on to behave with such delicacy towards Muslim scripture?
   • The exclusion of the eunuch is ideologically accomplished by designating him as ritually impure.
   • Moral impurity does not render a person ritually impure.
   • Although menstruating women are considered ritually impure and may not enter temples, discrimination against women is not pronounced.
   • According to Shinto beliefs, a woman is made impure by her menstrual cycles, meaning she should not even touch the sumo ring, let alone fight in it - a rule true in professional sumo even today.
   • Here's a suggested reading for all who fear a Catholic will become ritually impure by associating with people who have Incorrect Opinions.
   • The humanity of Christ enters unto the holy of holies as one defiled by sin, blemished, and impure through contact with death and the curse of the cross.
   • Some Jews even consider many actions and foods and even associations with some persons as ‘ritually impure.’
   • Jesus allows himself to be handled in public by a notorious woman who, with her unbound hair and hysterical display, is rendering him as ritually impure as she is herself.
   • Jesus, God in the flesh and understood as perfectly holy, was comfortable with the worst of people in a society which believed holy men demonstrated that holiness by shunning impurity and demonstrably impure people.
   • The Gurus always made it a point to repudiate the accepted notion of women being unworthy of performing religious ceremonies or being impure and temptation incarnate.
   • With its impure spirits, the evil eye is thought to afflict human beings, animals, agriculture and property.
   • His spirit is considered to be impure, dangerous, contaminated and contagious.
   • But compared with sickness that is always real and palpable, defilement not resulting from disease (e.g., ritually impure food), is fictional.

   Synonyms

   contaminated, polluted, tainted, infected, sullied, defiled, unwholesome, poisoned