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 Translation for 'to pollute' from English to Russian
VERB   to pollute | polluted | polluted
polluting | pollutes
SYNO to contaminate | to foul | to pollute
загрязнять [несов.]to pollute
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Translation for 'to pollute' from English to Russian

to pollute
загрязнять [несов.]
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Usage Examples English
  • In 1948, Calwell announced that no Japanese war brides would be allowed to settle in Australia, stating "it would be the grossest act of public indecency to permit any Japanese of either sex to pollute Australia" while relatives of deceased Australian soldiers were alive.
  • This in turn carries over to pollute the plants, the animals in the ecosystem, as well as the humans within the area of the pollution.
  • Although the use of chlordane as a pesticide was banned in the United States in 1988, the chemical sticks strongly to soil particles and can continue to pollute groundwater for years after its application.
  • There is some documentary evidence for this at Askham Bog in the Acomb Court Roll of 1594, which restricted where hemp could be retted (steeped) owing to the malodour produced by retted fibres and the potential for the retting water to pollute rivers.
  • In 1869 William Stansfield of Esholt Hall obtained an injunction requiring Bradford Corporation to improve the sewage system so as not to pollute the beck.

  • (GPC) has been known to pollute the air by emitting small particles from its coal burning, acetaldehyde as a byproduct from corn ethanol processing, and also lead.
  • The financial disincentive to pollute is in the form of the capital expenditure to develop the project or the cost of purchasing the offset from the developer of the project.
  • In orbit around extraterrestrial planets, non-sterile orbiters in decaying orbits threaten to pollute the remote planets they orbit with Earth-organisms, and hence create a false 'signal' of alien life, possibly destroying or supplanting native life, or infesting its remains.
  • At the same time, a young boy genius plans on taking a trip to the Moon without using fossil fuels to pollute Earth's atmosphere.
  • Namor responds that Mazikhandar had declared war on "his" nation when they decided to pollute the oceans.

  • Heavy metals have also been shown to pollute soil, deteriorating arable land quality and adversely impacting food safety (such as vegetables or grain).
  • These measures of the reactivity of the effluent indicate an ability to pollute.
  • As a result, pond pollution is likely to pollute groundwater and vice versa.
  • His translation (2013) of Simone Weil’s 1940 essay "On the Abolition of All Political Parties" was inspired, he said, by the "toxic atmosphere" that had started to pollute Australian politics.
  • With no answer to his challenge, Mardonius ordered his cavalry to pollute the Asopos from which the Greeks were getting their water, so the Athenian forces decided in the night to move towards Plataea.

  • An example was when the "New York Times" reported in mid-June 2012 that Governor Andrew Cuomo and his staff were deliberating on a plan to restrict hydrofracking to five counties in the Southern Tier of New York where the Marcellus shale is deepest and drilling is least likely to pollute well water supplies in those aquifers.
  • Despite court decisions upheld by the ECHR, [...] , Yatağan, Yeniköy and Kemerköy coal-fired power stations continue to pollute.
  • It has a drainage area of [...] , of which nearly half is forest land, and the rest is split between urban and agricultural uses, both of which have tended to pollute the brook in the past.
  • It can be difficult to apply social values (as opposed to following self-interest) in an extremely competitive market; a company that refuses to pollute, for example, may find itself bankrupt.
  • For example, in the above-mentioned case, the homeowners could negotiate with the pollution firm and strike a deal in which they would pay the firm not to pollute or to charge the firm for pollution; the outcome pertaining to who pays is determined by bargaining power.

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