pollution

[pol·lu·tion]

Pollution is unwanted, harmful stuff contaminating an environment. The race to develop clean energy is motivated by high levels of pollution that people fear are permanently damaging the earth's environment.

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The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

Noun
the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors

Noun
the state of being polluted

Noun
undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities


n.
The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

n.
The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse.


Pollution

Pol*lu"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. 2. (Med.) The emission of semen, or sperm, at other times than in sexual intercourse. Dunglison.

The act of polluting, or the state of being polluted (in any sense of the verb); defilement; uncleanness; impurity.

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Usage Examples

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

Doing all we can to combat climate change comes with numerous benefits, from reducing pollution and associated health care costs to strengthening and diversifying the economy by shifting to renewable energy, among other measures.

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

Have we failed to slow global warming pollution in part because climate and environmental activists have been too polite and well behaved?

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Despite Arizona's remarkable growth in recent years, we have met the current federal health standards for ozone pollution and the Environmental Protection Agency recently approved our dust control plan.

Cities all over the world are getting bigger as more and more people move from rural to urban sites, but that has created enormous problems with respect to environmental pollution and the general quality of life.

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Other Usage Examples

Australia is the only island continent on the planet, which means that changes caused by planet-warming pollution - warmer seas, which can drive stronger storms, and more acidic oceans, which wreak havoc on the food chain - are even more deadly here.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

The biggest tab the public picks up for fossil fuels has to do with what economists call 'external costs,' like the health effects of air and water pollution.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

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