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
deforestation
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

Examples of polluting

polluting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The 'frivolous' or even 'polluting' connotations of the naked body were perceived as a threat to the sanctity of the most important national monument.
Option values are attached to the three possibilities: to stop emissions temporarily, to exit entirely and to re-start polluting (for an 'entry fee').
The respondents shared deep concerns about the long-lasting polluting effects caused by deforestation, industry, vehicles and the use of chemical inputs in agriculture.
However, intensities are also affected by changing prices of (or taxes on) polluting inputs into the production process.
This is straightforward because they are heavily polluting firms.
The realized pollution is determined jointly by the demand for polluting rights or environmental absorption capacity and the supply of these rights.
What combination of instruments will be used depends on the elasticity of demand for the polluting good and the relative costs of options.
This suggests that a developing economy, because of flexible rural wages, may have a comparative advantage in a less polluting rural good.
This result would be against the traditional finding that developing countries tend to have comparative advantage in more polluting goods.
When we consider the toxicity factor, it appears that among the above-mentioned sectors only 3511, 3512, 3710, and 3720 remain as the highest polluting industries.
In addition, polluting assets can be retrofitted, or retired early.
This is more plausible when we relax the assumption of competition, and allow for collusion over research strategies between small numbers of polluting firms.
As shown in section 4, when the polluting industry is import-competing (export), preferential liberalization by the partner country has an additional positive (negative) impact.
Again, the results hinge upon whether the polluting industry is import-competing or not.
The parameter a can be interpreted as a technology index describing how polluting a given technology is.
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