verb
- Make impure.
- usage: "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
- synonyms: pollute, foul, contaminate
adjective
- Rendered unwholesome by contaminants and pollution.
- usage: "had to boil the contaminated water"; "polluted lakes and streams"
- synonyms: contaminated
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