| 单词 | pollute |
| 释义 | pollute —polluter, n. —pollutive, adj. /peuh looht"/, v.t., polluted, polluting. 1. to make foul or unclean, esp. with harmful chemical or waste products; dirty: to pollute the air with smoke. 2. to make morally unclean; defile. 3. to render ceremonially impure; desecrate: to pollute a house of worship. 4. Informal. to render less effective or efficient: The use of inferior equipment has polluted the company's service. [1325-75; ME polute < L pollutus ptp. of polluere to soil, defile, equiv. to pol-, assimilated var. of por- (see POLLICITATION; here marking the action as complete) + -lu- base of -luere (akin to lutum mud, dirt, lustrum muddy place) + -tus ptp. suffix] Syn. 1. soil, befoul. 2. taint, contaminate, vitiate, corrupt, debase, deprave. Ant. 1, 2. purify. |
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