POLLUTE


Meaning of POLLUTE in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

pollute the environment

Nuclear waste will pollute the environment for centuries.

polluted

The air in Mexico City is heavily polluted.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

heavily

The river is already heavily polluted by chemical and metallurgical industries.

There was little information on the health of people living in that area, which had been known to be heavily polluted .

most

One, the copper flower, grows in dense violet clumps on the most polluted soils of all.

Point Judith Pond, the eastern most of the tidal ponds, has been the most polluted by oil.

■ NOUN

air

Cigarette smokers pollute the air for other people but take no account of this in deciding how much to smoke.

Residents of the two cities breathe the same polluted air .

Short-term measurements were carried out in the drivers' breathing zones by drawing polluted air through a charcoal tube during unloading.

Paints traditionally were made with volatile organic compounds, which can pollute indoor and outdoor air .

atmosphere

Likewise the pesticides and weedkillers used in large-scale crop-farming kill plants and wildlife and pollute the atmosphere .

The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.

environment

Aluminium smelters are only one of a score of industries which now pollute the total environment with fluoride emissions and solid wastes.

Who owns the company that is accused of polluting the environment ?

Catalysts convert carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide, which is less toxic, but equally polluting to the environment .

Chlorine bleaching of pulp for paper releases dioxins into rivers and soil, further polluting the environment .

We have, in fact, as well as polluting our environment chemically also polluted it with radio waves of varying frequencies.

He used to say it polluted the environment .

Its only scourge - heavy lorries - rumbling through its streets, polluting the environment and damaging historic buildings.

Urban ecologists started concerning themselves with children growing up in polluted environments .

plant

Likewise the pesticides and weedkillers used in large-scale crop-farming kill plants and wildlife and pollute the atmosphere.

river

It says that the company razed forests, polluted rivers , retarded crop growth and caused birth defects.

Businesses that polluted the river were fined.

Transnational oil and mining companies pollute rivers and finance grossly disruptive mines.

The River Doe Lea is much more polluted than all other rivers in the area.

Water rising through abandoned mines could pollute rivers , kill wildlife and contaminate drinking water.

water

Do not pollute fresh water supplies.

The mine was shut down last August after a spill of polluted water from a waste pond flowed into a nearby river.

This is generally caused by a decomposing body or bodies polluting the water and is usually accompanied by an unpleasant smell.

Lawrence River, where she takes samples from polluted water and instructs local residents in environmental sciences.

As well as not functioning in a submersed situation, dying cells, releasing adverse substances will pollute the water .

Nitrogen can take up to 20 years to pollute water and, therefore, is a very long term problem.

The dumps were generating explosive gases and leaching noxious chemicals that polluted underground water sources.

This wastes food and pollutes the water .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

An investigation revealed that the mine was polluting both the air and the groundwater.

Many of these factories pollute the air with hydrogen sulfide.

Money has polluted the democratic spirit of American politics.

The company is charged with polluting the River Mersey by allowing crude oil to enter the river.

The factory explosion, which polluted the surrounding area with dioxin, was reportedly caused by negligence.

The group wants to ban logging activities that could pollute the water.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

As well as not functioning in a submersed situation, dying cells, releasing adverse substances will pollute the water.

But the association of menstrual blood pollutes her and she loses for ever the pristine purity of a female child.

Giving companies tax incentives to clean up and use vacant, polluted lots in cities.

It is believed the spill is continuing to pollute the region.

The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.

This would implant an electronic smart card in cars' engine-management systems, to monitor the quantity of polluting emissions.

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