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Definition of Pollutes
1. pollute [v] - See also: pollute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollutes
Literary usage of Pollutes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Popeby Edwin Abbott by Edwin Abbott (1875)
"Amid that area w. they took their stand D. ii. 27 Who flings most filth, and w.
pollutes around D. ii. 279 It'', as a wind-mill all his figure spread D. ii. ..."
2. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1895)
"A riparian proprietor who pollutes a stream by an unreasonable discharge of
sewage, to the injury and inconvenience of lower riparian owners, ..."
3. Curiosities of London: Exhibiting the Most Rare and Remarkable Objects of by John Timbs (1855)
"... in 1850, "tl grave-yards of London are still the plague-spots of its population
T putrid drainage of them pollutes its wells, seethes beneath its ..."
4. Harper's Cyclopaedia of British and American Poetry edited by Epes Sargent (1882)
"Unharmed, the sin which earth pollutes, He passed securely o'er, And never wore
a pair of boots For thirty years or more. But good old Grimes is now at rest ..."
5. Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1908)
"... from which a stream of filth trickles down a little uneven pathway ; and none
cares when it finds a crevice into the well and pollutes the water. ..."
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