Dirt vs Pollute - What's the difference?
dirt | pollute | Related terms |
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
(dated) To corrupt or profane
* But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted , as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.” —Revelation 21:8 (RSV)
To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
Dirt is a related term of pollute.
As a noun dirt
is animal.As a verb pollute is
to make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.As an adjective pollute is
(rare) polluted.dirt
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Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
Derived terms
* dirt bike * dirt nap * dirty * do someone dirtpollute
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Verb
(pollut)- The factory pollute d the river when it cleaned its tanks.
- The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.
