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Polluted vs Infected - What's the difference?

polluted | infected |

As adjectives the difference between polluted and infected

is that polluted is defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched while infected is referring to something that has received an infection.

As verbs the difference between polluted and infected

is that polluted is simple past and past participle of pollute while infected is (infect).

polluted

English

(Webster 1913)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.

    • Derived terms

    * pollutedly * pollutedness

    Verb

    (head)
  • Simple past and past participle of pollute.

    • References

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    infected

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (infect)
    • Slowly, the strange alien virus infected the whole town.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • referring to something that has received an infection
    • The infected bodies were hastily piled up and burned.