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pollute

verb transitive
To defile; to make foul or unclean; in a general sense. But appropriately, among the Jews, to make unclean or impure, in a legal or ceremonial sense, so as to disqualify a person for sacred services, or to render things unfit for sacred uses. Numbers 18:32; Exodus 20:25; 2 Kings 23:16; 2 Chronicles 36:14.

pollute

To taint with guilt. Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezekiel 20:37.

pollute

To profane; to use for carnal or idolatrous purposes.S My sabbaths they greatly polluted. Ezekiel 20:13.

pollute

To corrupt or impair by mixture of ill, moral or physical. Envy you my praise, and would destroy . With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy?

pollute

To violate by illegal sexual commerce.

pollute

adjective
Polluted; defiled.