polluted

Modifies a noun

• runoff: EPA and states believe polluted runoff causes more than one-half of remaining water quality problems.
• groundwater: Once polluted, groundwater is extremely difficult to clean up.
• suburb: This is unsustainable and adds to the pollution already in the City's most polluted suburbs - Osmaston and Sinfin.
• river: By the end of the 18th century, polluted rivers were covered to form part of the sewerage system due to health reasons.
• air: During the summer months we drive around with our windows open letting in the polluted air of our cities busy streets.
• soil: The results raised hopes that the plants might become a viable alternative for cleaning up polluted soil.

Modifying Another Word

• grossly: But it must also be an aim to improve and enhance environmental quality in those areas already degraded or grossly polluted.
• heavily: In 1964 the heavily polluted original was replaced by a copy.
• badly: Water with high BOD figures are badly polluted, lower figures are better.
• seriously: A seriously polluted river Effects of pollution Pollution can make rivers smell.
• severely: In 1986 the river was severely polluted by a chemical factory fire.
• highly: I was quite sure that the sea was highly polluted.

Used with adjective complement

• become: A thing once uttered by the tongue becomes polluted.
• have: I 've polluted your mind in 25 little stages.

Preposition: with

• sewage: The weak ale is believed to be better for them than water - which is often polluted with sewage.
• oil: Western People Oil pollution blamed for sick swans The River Erne around Enniskillen is polluted with oil.

Preposition: by

• run-off: Its water can be somewhat polluted by agricultural run-off but still remains fairly clean.
• sewage: The usual cause of typhoid was allowing drinking water to be polluted by sewage.
• waste: They believed that diseases were caused by the air somehow being polluted by waste.

Preposition: than

• air: According to the EPA, indoor air can be up to 70 times more polluted than outdoor air.