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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act or process of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances.
  2. n. Something that pollutes; a pollutant or a group of pollutants: Pollution in the air reduced the visibility near the airport.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of polluting; also, the state of being polluted; defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
  2. n. Specifically, legal or ceremonial uncleanness, disqualifying a person for sacred services or for intercourse with others, or rendering anything unfit for sacred use.
  3. n. The emission of semen at any other time than during coition: more frequently called self-pollution.

Wiktionary

  1. n. The act of polluting or the state of being polluted, especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances.
  2. n. Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
  3. n. archaic Physical defilement.
  4. n. medicine, obsolete The emission of semen at other times than in sexual intercourse.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.
  2. n. (Med.) The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities
  2. n. the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
  3. n. the state of being polluted

Etymologies

  1. Recorded since c.1340, as "discharge of semen other than during sex," later, "desecration, defilement" (1382), from Late Latin pollutio "defilement," from Latin polluere "to soil, defile, contaminate", itself from por- "before" + -luere "to smear" (related to lutum "mud" and to lues "filth", compare Greek (lyma) "filth, dirt, disgrace" and (lymax) "rubbish, refuse," Old Irish loth "mud, dirt," Lithuanian lutynas "pool, puddle"). Sense of "contamination of the environment" first recorded c.1860 (Wiktionary)

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. defilement
  1. uncleanness
  1. impurity
  1. soilage

antonyms (2)

Words with the opposite meaning

  1. conservation
  1. purity

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. uncleanness
  1. dirtiness

same context (24)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. contamination
  2. emission
  3. pollutant
  4. degradation
  1. radiation
  2. hazard
  3. impurity
  4. corruption
  1. deterioration
  2. toxin
  3. dioxide
  4. exposure
  1. erosion
  2. depletion
  3. pesticide
  4. disturbance
  1. filth
  2. waste
  3. runoff
  4. chemical
  1. poison
  2. damage
  3. poverty
  4. spill

rhymes (32)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Aleutian
  2. Andalusian
  3. Confucian
  4. Constitution
  5. Lilliputian
  6. Lucian
  1. absolution
  2. attribution
  3. constitution
  4. contribution
  5. counterrevolution
  6. devolution
  1. dilution
  2. diminution
  3. dissolution
  4. distribution
  5. electrocution
  6. elocution
  1. evolution
  2. execution
  3. institution
  4. lilliputian
  5. persecution
  6. prosecution
  1. prostitution
  2. redistribution
  3. resolution
  4. restitution
  5. retribution
  6. revolution
  1. solution
  2. substitution

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sound pollution
  2. noise pollution
  3. water pollution
  4. smog
  5. small-particle pollution
  6. smogginess
  7. industrial air pollution
  8. nonbiodegradable pollution
  9. air pollution
  10. biodegradable pollution
  11. low-polluting
  12. self-pollution
  13. pollution
  14. filth
  15. filth disease
  16. filthiness
  1. jagannath
  2. inquination
  3. defedation
  4. defilement
  5. conspurcation
  6. contamination
  7. cleanse
  8. pollutingly
  9. antipollution
  10. environmentalism
  11. coinquination
  12. nonpoint
  13. impurity
  14. tree-of-heaven
  15. photochemical smog
  16. depollute
  1. biochemical oxygen demand
  2. abomination
  3. tree of heaven
  4. tree of the gods
  5. uncontaminating
  6. united states fish and wildlife service
  7. us fish and wildlife service
  8. point source
  9. polluted
  10. polluter
  11. blight
  12. green
  13. clean
  14. clamor
  15. pure
  16. fresh
  1. industrial
  2. temeration
  3. clear
  4. defiler
  5. dirty
  6. environmental protection agency
  7. EPA
  8. fws
  9. mephitic
  10. miasmic
  11. mutagenic
  12. pollutedly
  13. ailanthus altissima
  14. cleanly
  15. conservationist
  16. contaminated
  1. contaminating
  2. environmentalist
  3. onanism
  4. polluting
  5. purification
  6. sanctify
  7. self-abuse
  8. soilure
  9. white
  10. chandala
  11. cleanness
  12. corruption
  13. foulness
  14. nastiness
  15. profanation
  16. suds

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  • Prolagus Polluzione, in Italian, is the medical term for a nocturnal emission, also known as wet dream.

    Sono andato a vivere in campagna per scappare dalla polluzione. Mar 30, 2009

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