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Polluting

Polluting \Pol*lut"ing\, a. Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution. -- Pol*lut"ing*ly, adv.

Polluting

Pollute \Pol*lute"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Polluted; p. pr. & vb. n. Polluting.] [L. pollutus, p. p. of polluere to defile, to pollute, from a prep. appearing only in comp. + luere to wash. See Position, Lave.]

  1. To make foul, impure, or unclean; to defile; to taint; to soil; to desecrate; -- used of physical or moral defilement.

    The land was polluted with blood.
    --Ps. cvi. 38

    Wickedness . . . hath polluted the whole earth.
    --2 Esd. xv. 6.

  2. To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonor.

  3. (Jewish Law) 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.
    --Lam. iv. 1

  4. Syn: To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish.

Wiktionary
polluting

  1. Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution. v

  2. (present participle of pollute English)

Usage examples of "polluting".

He still felt out­rage at what the polluting primitivists had done to some of those islands in the areas of Trimus that were sup­posed to have been left alone.

There was no need for Gori'allolub to tell Drin what low tech population pressure was doing to the reserved area of Trimus, nor of the reluc­tance—misplaced in Drin's mind—to reeducate the polluting idiots.

I've had to force Bisman not to lead them into using polluting machinery.

She dropped to her haunches and rinsed the cup, doing a bit of polluting herself as a film of residue from the cup was carried away.

This process would use only 1/7 to 1/4 as much polluting sulfur-based acid chemicals to break down the glue-like lignin that binds the fibers of the pulp, or even none at all using soda ash.

An almost unlimited tonnage of natural fiber and cellulose would have become available to the American farmer in 1937, the year DuPont patented nylon and the polluting wood-pulp paper sulfide process.

Their polluting factories make imitation leather, upholstery and wood surfaces, while an important part of the natural cycle stands outlawed.

Some even blame our modern technology for polluting our air and water to the point where the entire environment is beginning to collapse around us.

Second-generation technology can feed the hungry without polluting the air and the seas.

Someone far more cynical than me might suggest that Mr Gray and his polluting clients, unable to halt the clean air treaty during the Clinton administration, perfected a new way to derail the environmental movement: If you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em.

Mendelsohn advised we must recast our plan for new power stations, noisy and polluting, into something that sounded earth-friendly.

You're supposed to be outraged that the foul substance dwa is now polluting the world of the Elves.