Dictionary entry
Pollutant
Pronunciation: /pəˈl(j)uːt(ə)nt/
Pronunciation
/pəˈl(j)uːt(ə)nt/
Myanmar Meaning
(n) စက်ရုံမီးခိုး၊အမှိုက်စသည်ကဲ့သို့ညစ်ညမ်းစေသောပစ္စည်း။
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
- The oil spillage has polluted the harbour.
- The villagers drank from wells polluted with toxic chemicals.
- He was accused of polluting children’s minds.