verb
- Make impure.
- usage: "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
- synonyms: pollute, foul, contaminate
- Make radioactive by adding radioactive material.
- usage: "Don't drink the water-it's contaminated"
- synonyms: contaminate
adjective
- Spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.
- usage: "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout"
- synonyms: dirty
- That infects or taints.
- synonyms: corrupting
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