Found 3 hits - Term: pollution, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pollution \pollu"tion\, n. l. pollutio: cf. f. pollution.
1. the act of polluting, or the state of being polluted in
any sense of the verb; defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
1913 webster
2. med. the emission of semen, or sperm, at other times
than in sexual intercourse. --dunglison.
1913 webster
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pollution
n 1: undesirable state of the natural environment being
contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of
human activities
2: the state of being polluted syn: befoulment, defilement
3: the act of contaminating or polluting; including either
intentionally or accidentally unwanted substances or
factors syn: contamination ant: decontamination
see also:
befoulment defilement contamination decontamination
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
101 moby thesaurus words for "pollution":
abomination, abuse, abuse of office, adulteration, air, atrocity,
bad, badness, bane, bastardizing, befouling, befoulment,
besmirchment, blight, contamination, conversion,
corrupt administration, corruption, crying evil, cutting, damage,
debasement, defalcation, defilement, desecration, despoliation,
destruction, detriment, dilution, dirtying, diversion, doctoring,
embezzlement, envenoming, evil, festering, fortifying, fouling,
grievance, harm, harmfulness, havoc, health hazard, hurt, ill,
infection, injuriousness, injury, insalubriousness, insalubrity,
lacing, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, malversation,
menace to health, misapplication, misappropriation, mischief,
misconduct, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement,
misusage, misuse, noise pollution, noisomeness, noxiousness,
outrage, pathenogenicity, peculation, perversion, pilfering,
poison, poisoning, poor stewardship, profanation, prostitution,
ritual uncleanness, soiling, spiking, spoiling, staining, sullying,
suppuration, tainting, the worst, toxin, unhealthfulness,
unhealthiness, unsalutariness, unwholesomeness, venom, vexation,
violation, vitiation, water, watering, woe, wrong
Results 1 - 3 of 3 found about pollution: Pollution
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Pollution, definition of term: Pollution
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Sound Pollution, definition of term: Sound Pollution
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Air Pollution, definition of term: Air Pollution
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