Pollute

v. t. [imp. & p. p. POLLUTED; p. pr. & vb. n. POLLUTING.] [Lat. polluere, pollutum, Fr. polluer.]

1. To make foul or unclean; to render impure; to taint.
2. To defile morally; to destroy the perfection or purity of; to corrupt; to impair; to profane.

Ye pollute yourselves with all your idols. Ezek. xx. 31. Envy you my praise, and would destroy With grief my pleasures, and pollute my joy? Dryden.

3. To render legally or ceremonially unclean, so as to disqualify for sacred services or uses, as in the ancient Jewish economy.
4. To violate by illegal sexual commerce.

Syn.—To defile; soil; contaminate; corrupt; taint; vitiate; debauch; dishonor; ravish; abuse.