pollute

«pollute» in Mova's school 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

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

• 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

• 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.
• Burning fossil fuels pollutes the air and adds carbon dioxide, which warms the Earth's climate.
• Smoke from vehicles, factories and burning rubbish pollutes the air.
• Because their skin is thin, frogs are easily harmed by polluted water.

Trees and pragmatics

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