polluted

polluted
adj
1. dirty, unclean, fouled, befouled, soiled, sooty, grimy, smoky, sullied, maculated; impure, tainted, infected, cankerous, poisoned, adulterated, Inf. mucky, Inf. mucked up, littered, litter-strewn, Inf. junked up.
2. defiled, contaminated, vitiated, spoiled, corrupted; malodorous, mephitic, rank, fetid, putrid, odious, noxious, noisome; slimy, Inf. scrummy, sludgy, Inf. gloppy, Inf. gunky; unhygienic, unsanitary, insanitary, morbific, pathogenic, pestiferous, feculent, ordurous; unhealthy, unhealthful, unwholesome.
3. debased, devalued, worsened, made worse; undermined, weakened, downgraded, endangered; harmed, injured, damaged, blighted, destroyed; desolate, wasted, laid waste; violated, ravaged, despoiled, misused, abused, mismanaged, desecrated, profaned.

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  • Polluted — Pol*lut ed, a. Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. {Pol*lut ed*ly}, adv. {Pol*lut ed*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • polluted — index dissolute, harmful, profane, salacious, tainted (contaminated) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • polluted — [pə lo͞ot′id] adj. 1. contaminated 2. Slang intoxicated; drunk …   English World dictionary

  • polluted — pol|lut|ed [pəˈlu:tıd] adj dangerously dirty and not suitable for people to use ▪ one of the most polluted areas in the world polluted air/water/rivers etc ▪ The project s aim is to clean up polluted land. heavily/seriously/severely polluted ▪… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • Polluted — Pollute Pol*lute , v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Polluted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Polluting}.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a prep. appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See {Position}, {Lave}.] 1. To make foul, impure, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • polluted — adj. VERBS ▪ be ▪ become, get ▪ The rivers became polluted as the result of industrial waste. ADVERB ▪ badly, heavily …   Collocations dictionary

  • polluted — mod. alcohol or drug intoxicated. □ Those guys are really polluted. □ Madam, you are polluted! …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

  • polluted — pollutedness, n. /peuh looh tid/, adj. 1. made unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted: swimming in polluted waters. 2. Slang. drunk. [1350 1400; ME; see POLLUTE, ED2] * * * …   Universalium

  • polluted — Synonyms and related words: abandoned, afflicted, bad, bad for, bent, boiled, bombed, boozy, canned, cockeyed, cockeyed drunk, common, contaminated, corrupt, corrupted, crocked, crocko, debased, debauched, decadent, defiled, degenerate, degraded …   Moby Thesaurus

  • polluted — very drunk, loaded, plastered, wasted    Every Friday night he goes to the bar and drinks till he s polluted …   English idioms

  • polluted — adjective rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution (Freq. 1) had to boil the contaminated water polluted lakes and streams • Syn: ↑contaminated • Similar to: ↑impure …   Useful english dictionary

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