pollute
verb transitiveTo 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.