Pollute: alternatives and connections

To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

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To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

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The black grime or soot of coal.

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Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white.

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Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence…

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Infected. Cf. Enfect.

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A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect.

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The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

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The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.

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To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile.

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A bird.

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