Verb

(pollut)

To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.

The factory pollute d the river when it cleaned its tanks.

To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.

The lights from the stadium polluted the night sky, and we couldn't see the stars.

(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.

Verb

(es)

(obsolete, or, archaic) To seize and carry away by violence; to snatch by force.

To transport with joy or delight; to delight to ecstasy.

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, year=1873 , author=Jules Verne , title=Around the World in 80 Days , chapter=9 citation , passage=Passepartout was ravished to behold this celebrated place, and thought that, with its circular walls and dismantled fort, it looked like an immense coffee-cup and saucer.}}

To rape.

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, year=1759 , author=Voltaire , title=Candide , chapter=8 citation , passage=A tall Bulgarian soldier, six feet high, perceiving that I had fainted away at this sight, attempted to ravish me; the operation brought me to my senses. I cried, I struggled, I bit, I scratched, I would have torn the tall Bulgarian’s eyes out, not knowing that what had happened at my father’s castle was a customary thing.}}

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.x:

For loe that Guest would beare her forcibly, / And meant to ravish her, that rather had to dy.