pollute
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Forest Service mascot "Woodsy Owl," or the slogan "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute."
From US News • Nov. 18, 2015
Permission To Pollute A town on the Kansas prairie finds itself fighting not only a local cement plant, but the EPA.
From Slate • Nov. 10, 2011
Then, recovering himself, he said angrily, "Pollute not my Daniel with thy touch."
From Dreamers of the Ghetto by Zangwill, Israel
Pollute, pol-lūt′, v.t. to soil: to defile: to make foul: to taint: to corrupt: to profane: to violate.—adj. defiled.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Yet, Britons, envy not these boasted climes, Incessant war distracts, and endless crimes Pollute the soil:—Pale Avarice triumphs there, Hate, Envy, Rage, and heart-corroding Care, With Fraud and Fear, and comfortless Despair.
From Notes and Queries, Number 181, April 16, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
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