Read full poem →The racked and shrieking hideousness of Truth
To find, in hate's polluted self-defence
Throbbing, the pulse, the divine heart of man.
Dictionary Entry
To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
In a Sentence
“The factory polluted the river when it cleaned its tanks.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
water polluted. pollutedair pollutedwaters pollutedareas pollutedpolluted heavily
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Poetry examples for “polluted”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The waters of eternal life, to bid me
Drink the polluted puddles of this world?
Read full poem →From its old ruins brothel-houses rise,
Scenes of lewd loves, and of polluted joys.
Where their vast courts, the mother-strumpets keep,
Read full poem →His well acquainted tints, and kindred hues.
Hence through their tribes no mix’d polluted flame,
No monster-breed to mark the groves with shame;
Read full poem →The dreadful stench of her torches' flare,
Fed with human fat, polluted the air:
The curses, the shrieks, the ceaseless cries
Read full poem →The blood within those veins may be mine own,
But--Tyrant--their polluted souls are thine;-- _60
Read full poem →The downward season's iron reign,
Compels to breathe polluted air,
And shiver on a blasted plain.
Read full poem →[293] Polluted] Dishonour'd MS. III, Remorse. [In MS. III S. T. C.
substituted 'Polluted' for 'Dishonoured.']
Read full poem →man as yet hear of any ship-army, nor even the mention of
any war. The earth was not yet polluted with the blood of
slain men, nor was any one even wounded. They did not
Read full poem →The downward season's iron reign,
Compels to breathe polluted air,
And shiver on a blasted plain.