Word Meanings - POLLUTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. -- Pol*lut"ed*ly, adv. -- Pol*lut"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POLLUTED)

• Corrupt
• Defiled
• polluted
• vitiated
• decayed
• depraved
• putrid
• rotten
• infected
• tainted
• profligate
• contaminated
• Miasmatic
• Effluvious
• malarious
• foetid
• noxious
• mephitic

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of POLLUTED)

• Mend
• repair
• purify
• cleanse
• correct
• ameliorate
• better

Related words: (words related to POLLUTED)

• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CORRECTLY
  In a correct manner; exactly; acurately; without fault or error.
• VITIATE
  1. To make vicious, faulty, or imperfect; to render defective; to injure the substance or qualities of; to impair; to contaminate; to spoil; as, exaggeration vitiates a style of writing; sewer gas vitiates the air. A will vitiated and growth out
• CORRUPTIONIST
  One who corrupts, or who upholds corruption. Sydney Smith.
• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• CORRUPTIBLE
  1. Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18. 2. Capable of being corrupted, or morally vitiated; susceptible of depravation.
• DEFILADE
  To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.
• MEPHITIC; MEPHITICAL
  1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. Mephitic air , carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid,
• INFECTIVE
  Infectious. Beau. & Fl. True love . . . hath an infective power. Sir P. Sidney.
• CORRECTORY
  Containing or making correction; corrective.
• POLLUTE
  To render ceremonially unclean; to disqualify or unfit for sacred use or service, or for social intercourse. Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die. Num. xviii. 32. They have polluted themselves with blood.
• PUTRID
  or putris, rotten, fr. putere to stink, to be rotten: cf. F. putride. 1. Tending to decomposition or decay; decomposed; rotten; -- said of animal or vegetable matter; as, putrid flesh. See Putrefaction. 2. Indicating or proceeding from a decayed
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• CORRECTIFY
  To correct. When your worship's plassed to correctify a lady. Beau & Fl.
• DEFILE
  To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
• PROFLIGATENESS
  The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
• CORRUPTION
  1. The act of corrupting or making putrid, or state of being corrupt or putrid; decomposition or disorganization, in the process of putrefaction; putrefaction; deterioration. The inducing and accelerating of putrefaction is a subject
• INFECTIOUS
  Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
• TAINTURE
  Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
• OBNOXIOUS
  1. Subject; liable; exposed; answerable; amenable; -- with to. The writings of lawyers, which are tied obnoxious to their particular laws. Bacon. Esteeming it more honorable to live on the public than to be obnoxious to any private purse. Milton.
• REINFECT
  To infect again.
• DISINFECT
  To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroy putrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous. When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and the odoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect. Ure.
• INCORRECT
  1. Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope. 2. Not in accordance with the truth; inaccurate; not exact; as, an incorrect statement or calculation. 3. Not
• UNCORRUPTIBLE
  Incorruptible. "The glory of the uncorruptible God." Rom. i.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.