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Pollution vs Pollutes - What's the difference?

pollution | pollutes |

As a noun pollution

is the act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.

As a verb pollutes is

(pollute).

pollution

English

(wikipedia pollution)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
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  • Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  • (archaic) Physical defilement.
  • (medicine, obsolete) The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.
  • * 1839 , Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon'', Blanchard, page 492 defines ''POLLUTION as:
    • The excretion of seminal liquor or sperm, at other times than during coition. When occasioned by a voluntary act it is called, simply, Pollution'' or ''Masturbation'' (q.v.); when excited, during sleep, by lascivious dreams, it takes the name ''Noctur'nal pollution, Exoneiro'sis, Oneirog'mos, Oneirog'onos, Gonorrhœ'a dormien'tium, G. oneirog'onos, G. Vera, G. libidino'sa, Proflu'vium Sem'inis, Spermatorrhœ'a, Paronir'ia salax, Night pollution.

    Synonyms

    * soilage * (masturbation) self-pollution

    Antonyms

    * conservation * purity

    Derived terms

    * air pollution * light pollution * noise pollution * self-pollution * soil pollution * water pollution

    Related terms

    * polluter

    pollutes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (pollute)

    • Anagrams

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    pollute

    English

    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.

    • Derived terms

    * self-pollute

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (rare) Polluted.

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