Polluted
[pə'ljuːtɪd] or [pə'lʊtɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Pollute
(a.) Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.
Typist: Miguel
Examples
- Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Or else it looked as if it had gradually decomposed into that nightmare condition, out of the overflowings of the polluted stream. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- It is offensive to every sense; even the gross candle burns pale and sickly in the polluted air. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
Typist: Miguel