Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pollute; contaminate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To defile; to pollute; to contaminate; to befoul.
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- verb formal To
pollute or makedirty .
Etymologies
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From Latin inquināre ("polluting").
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Examples
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-- The objection that the effect when being reabsorbed into its cause would inquinate the latter with its qualities does not damage our position 'because there are parallel instances,' i.e. because there are instances of effects not inquinating with their qualities the causes into which they are reabsorbed.
The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 George Thibaut 1881
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“Una località, fu di villeggiatura, che con le sua acque inquinate non interessa più nessuno; un vecchio treno e un consumato macchinista; un incidente e quelle due ragazze, li’ ad aspettare, dove nessuno più aspetta.”
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