Polluter

Definition

pollute /pǝ'lu:t/ v (က) ~ sth(with sth) (ေလထု၊ ေရထု စသည္ ထဲသို႔ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ထုတ္လႊတ္ျခင္းျဖင့္ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္) ညစ္ညမ္း ေစသည္။ polluted air ❍ rivers polluted with chemical waste from factories. (ခ) [ဥ] ဆိုးညစ္ေစသည္။ အေရာင္ဆိုး သည္။ ( fig ) pollute the minds of the young with foul propaganda. ❏ pollutant /-ǝnt/ n (စက္႐ံုမီးခိုး၊ အမိႈက္ စသည္ကဲ့သို႔) ညစ္ညမ္းေစေသာပစၥည္း။ release pollutants into the atmosphere. ❏ polluter n ညစ္ညမ္းေစေသာပစၥည္း စြန္႔ထုတ္သူ။ ❏ pollution /pǝ'lu:ʃn/ n [U] (က) (ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္) ညစ္ညမ္း (ေစ)ျခင္း။ the pollution of our beaches with oil. (ခ) (ညစ္ညမ္းေစေသာ) အညစ္အေၾကး။ beaches covered with pollution.

Examples

1. The oil spillage has polluted the harbour.
2. The villagers drank from wells polluted with toxic chemicals.
3. He was accused of polluting children’s minds.