pollute

Meaning of pollute

verb
  1. contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances.
    the explosion polluted the town with dioxin

late Middle English: from Latin pollut- ‘soiled, defiled’, from the verb polluere, based on the root of lutum ‘mud’.

Information about pollute

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of pollute is: pollutes.
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Hyphenation of pollute

pol-lute

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • pollute is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

pollute synonyms

Meaning foul:

foul, contaminate

Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:

adulterate

Meaning contaminate or pollute (something):

taint

Meaning adulterate or contaminate with poison:

poison

Meaning make dirty; pollute:

befoul

Meaning make dirty:

dirty

Meaning the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles:

soil

Meaning have a severely detrimental effect on:

blight

Meaning contaminate (air, water, etc.) with harmful organisms:

infect

pollute antonyms

Meaning make clean; remove dirt, marks, or stains from:

clean

Meaning remove contaminants from:

purify

Translation of pollute

Words that rhyme with pollute

lute, intersalute, resalute, salute, ablute, Clute, Selute, belute, elute, flute, spitzflute, waldflute, Quinaglute, deglute, englute, glute, quinaglute, archlute, archilute, dilute, overdilute, undilute, Klute, ballute, depollute, impollute, repollute, vellute, enlute, unlute, Absolute, Involute, absolute, basisolute, circumvolute, consolute, convolute, devolute, dissolute, evolute, indissolute, intervolute, involute, irresolute, mandolute, nonabsolute, obvolute, osmolute, overresolute, resolute

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