decontaminate
We should respect the environment and not pollute it.我们应当善待环境，避免污染。
The fertilizers and pesticides used on many farms are polluting the water supply.
Oil from the wrecked tanker polluted more than 40 miles of the Normandy shoreline.从失事油轮中溢出的石油使诺曼底海岸长达40多英里的区域受到了污染。
The fund provides money to clean up chemically polluted industrial sites.该基金提供资金用于清理遭化学污染的工业场所。
High concentrations of toxic elements were found in the polluted areas of the sea.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Environmental issues
agroecology
air pollution
anoxia
anoxic
anti-conservation
carbon capture
dumping ground
eco-audit
eco-footprint
efficiency
energy conservation
energy security
environmental justice
environmentalism
reduce, reuse, recycleidiom
rewilding
runoff
scrapyard
scrubber
sequester

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Making things dirty & untidy

pollute | American Dictionary

pollute
verb[ T ]
us/pəˈlut/
to make air, water, or earth dirty or harmful to people, animals, and plants, esp. by adding harmful chemicals or waste:
Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are polluting the groundwater.

pollutant

noun[ C ]us/pəˈlu·tənt/
Maybe there’s some kind of chemical pollutant in their drinking water.

pollute | Business English

pollute
verb[ I or T ]
uk /pəˈluːt/us
ENVIRONMENT
to make water, the air, or land dirty and not safe for people, animals, and plants, especially with waste or chemicals:
You don't need to pollute the planet to grow your economy.
He expects coal plants built after 2012 to be equipped with technology for capturing and storing carbon emissions so that they will not pollute.

Examples of pollute

pollute
If one factory did not pollute the water, downstream factories could use the same water and there would be no shortage.
However, intensities are also affected by changing prices of (or taxes on) polluting inputs into the production process.
More than 70 per cent of the surface water (rivers) near cities is polluted.
Heavily polluted means that the index is between 1 and 2, making the water unsuitable for body contact.
The realized pollution is determined jointly by the demand for polluting rights or environmental absorption capacity and the supply of these rights.
Given the fact that real asset price motion is polluted by noise, such a procedure seems to be reasonable.
One may object that function inlining and constant propagation are purely compiler issues and should not pollute the module system.
With free trade, countries with a comparative advantage in pollution-intensive goods will pollute more-giving them an advantage in the environmental bargaining game.
In addition, polluting assets can be retrofitted, or retired early.
This is a reasonable concept of convergence since, besides convergence of the eigenmodes, it also contains the information that no spurious eigenmodes pollute the spectrum.
He is himself contaminated, polluted, and must die.
Inlining annotations, however, could pollute the module interface with additional binding-time specifications.
Meanwhile, oil and other substances had polluted the adjoining land.
The parameter a can be interpreted as a technology index describing how polluting a given technology is.
Without loss of generality, we confine our attention to one such polluting product, assuming that the rest of the products in the economy are non-polluting.
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