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pollution

n.

contamination, corruption, defilement, adulteration, blight, soiling, fouling, foulness, taint, tainting, polluting, decomposition, desecration, profanation, abuse, deterioration, rottenness, spoliation, impairment, misuse, infection, besmearing, besmirching, smirching; see also contamination.

Common environmental pollutants include: sewage, garbage, radiation, carbon monoxide, automobile exhaust, pesticides, chloroflurocarbons, CFCs, polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, hydrocarbons, carbon dioxide, dioxin, ethylene dibromide, EDB; tobacco smoke, wood smoke, coal smoke; asbestos, lead, chlorine, mercury; noise, nuclear waste, solid waste.

Browse dictionary entries near pollution

  1. ‹ polluted
  2. ‹ pollute
  3. ‹ pollutant
  4. ‹ pollster
  5. ‹ Pollock, (Paul) Jackson
  6. ‹ pollock
  7. ‹ polliwog
  8. ‹ pollinosis
  9. ‹ pollinize
  10. ‹ pollinium
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