Definition of "polluted" []

• Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched. (adjective)
• Simple past and past participle of pollute. (verb)

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• "To state that the beaches along the Gulf are highly polluted is an over-generalization that is plumb wrong."
• "The expression polluted, may, to some, convey an impression of more than ordinary contamination; but that is not warranted by its genuine meaning, as appears from The Rambler, No. 42 [F-8]."
• "Augustine, Bishop of the English, in the Old Testament some persons were termed polluted figuratively, which the people of the New Law understand spiritually."