lut-
(Latin: mud; clay; dirt; filth; mire)
polluted (adjective)
A reference to being unclean or impure; contaminated; tainted.
1. The introduction of harmful substances or products into the environment: People noticed a lot of pollution in the air after the new rubber factory opened in the valley.
2. An undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities: After the river overflowed, it deposited a lot of pollution; including, junk and rubbish on the land when it receded.
3. The act of contaminating; involving (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors: The children unwittingly contributed pollution to the park by dropping candy wrappers on the grass and pathway.
4. Etymology: from Late Latin pollutionem, pollutio, "defilement"; from Latin polluere, "to soil, to defile, to contaminate"; from por-, "before" + -luere, "to smear".
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2. An undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities: After the river overflowed, it deposited a lot of pollution; including, junk and rubbish on the land when it receded.
3. The act of contaminating; involving (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors: The children unwittingly contributed pollution to the park by dropping candy wrappers on the grass and pathway.
4. Etymology: from Late Latin pollutionem, pollutio, "defilement"; from Latin polluere, "to soil, to defile, to contaminate"; from por-, "before" + -luere, "to smear".
Related "to lutum, "mud", and to lues, "filth"; comparable to Greek lyma, "filth, dirt, disgrace"; and lymax, "rubbish, refuse".
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unlute, unlutes; unluted; unluting (verbs)
1. To separate, as things cemented or luted.
2. To take the lute or the clay from.
2. To take the lute or the clay from.
Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "land, ground, fields, soil, dirt, mud, clay, earth (world)": agra-; agrest-; agri-; agro-; argill-; choro-; chthon-; epeiro-; geo-; glob-; myso-; pedo-; pel-; rhyp-; soil-; sord-; terr-.
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