pollute

«pollute» in Mova's judaism dictionary: to make air, water or land dirty and harmful by adding… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (pollute, pollutes, polluted, polluting)

meaning for a pupil

To pollute is to make air, water or land dirty and harmful by adding waste, smoke or chemicals. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: The prophets use it for what is made impure by wrongdoing, so that it cannot be offered to God. Malachi says the people offered polluted bread on His altar. Interpretation: The tradition reads such pollution as moral and spiritual, caused by sin, and calls for repentance and purity. In the primary lessons: Used in science and geography lessons about the environment: factories, cars and litter pollute; we can reduce pollution by recycling, walking and cycling. Often passive: "The river is polluted."

examples

• Ginsburg asserts that the system of vowel polluting was invented by a Rabbi Mocha in Palestine about a.d. 570, who designed it to assist his pupils. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893) tree →
• Will not that land be greatly polluted? (Prophets JER.3.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar. (Prophets MAL.1.7, JPS 1917) tree →
• Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! (Prophets ZEP.3.1, JPS 1917) tree →
• Cars pollute the air with fumes. tree →
• Do not pollute the river with rubbish. tree →
• Plastic bags pollute the ocean. tree →
• The factory was fined for polluting the lake. tree →
• Polluted water can make animals ill. tree →
• How can we pollute less? tree →
• Smoke from fires pollutes the air. tree →

note

Noun: pollution; person or thing: polluter; adjective: polluted. Double l, one t. The opposite idea: clean up.

In the corpora

• Will not that land be greatly polluted?
• Ye offer polluted bread upon Mine altar.
• They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.
• Burning coal and oil also pollutes the air with soot and gases that cause millions of early deaths each year.
• Whether rich countries that polluted more should pay to help poorer countries is a disputed question.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pollute» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.