pollute
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verb with object
contaminate (water, air, or a place) with harmful or poisonous substances:
【化学薬品･下水などで】〈空気･水･土など〉を汚染する, 汚す «by, with»
e.g. the explosion polluted the town with dioxin
e.g. (as adjective polluted) : exposure to polluted air.
defile or corrupt:
〈人･精神〉を堕落させる, 〈物〉をだめにする; …を汚す
e.g. a society polluted by greed.
ORIGIN
late Middle English: from Latin pollut- ‘soiled, defiled’, from the verb polluere, based on the root of lutum ‘mud’.