pollution
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noun- 1.
(uncountable, usually)Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
Pollution levels are almost always higher in cities rather than the countryside, what with the cars, industry and so on.
Đồng nghĩa: defedation, defilement, soilage, adulteration, contamination, defedation, defilement, pollution, sophistication
- 2.
(uncountable, usually)Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
Đồng nghĩa: adulterant, contaminant, contamination, impurity, sophisticant, adulterant, adulterator, contaminant, contamination, contaminator, impurity, pollutant, pollution, sophisticant, taint
- 3.
(archaic, uncountable, usually)(now rare) The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation.
Đồng nghĩa: debasement, debauchment, perversion, abasement, adulteration, corruption, debasement, debauchment, defilement, depravation, depravement, impurification, perversion, pollution, profanation
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(archaic, uncountable, usually)(now archaic) The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission.
- 5.
(uncountable, usually)Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement.
Đồng nghĩa: baseness, perversion, baseness, corruption, defilement, degeneracy, degradation, depravation, depravedness, depravity, impurity, iniquity, lewdity, malignity, misdoing, misguilt, obliquity, peccability, perversion, pollution, pravity, sin, sinfulness, turpitude, vitiation, wickedness, wrongdoing
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From Middle English pollucioun, pollucion (desecration, impurity), from pollutiun, Middle French pollution, pollucion, and their source, post-classical Latin pollūtiō (defilement, desecration; nocturnal emission) (4th century), from the participial stem of polluō (to soil, defile, contaminate), from por- (before) + -luō (to smear), related to lutum (mud) and luēs (filth).