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What is the verb for pollution?

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pollute
  1. (transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
  2. (transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
  3. (dated) To corrupt or profane
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  5. Examples:
    1. “When washed off, these substances drain away to pollute public water resources.”
      “They pollute the good name of genuine health food products everywhere by posing as health foods and, in their awfulness, causing millions of their victims to revile and despise every other health food product.”
polluting
polluted
pollutes
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pollute
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The result is that fish waste pollutes the water, which becomes the perfect habitat for green algae to form.”
      “The traffic congestion that wastes time and energy and pollutes the air we breathe has reached its limit across the nation.”
      “She forbids her husband to sit on their bed in his daytime clothes in case he pollutes the duvet.”
polluteth
  1. (archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of pollute
pollutest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of pollute
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