Usually means: Introduces harmful substances into environment.
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  1. pollutes: Merriam-Webster
  2. pollutes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pollutes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pollutes, pollutes: Wordnik
  5. pollutes: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. pollutes: Wiktionary
  7. pollutes: Dictionary.com
  8. pollutes: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. pollutes: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pollutes: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pollutes: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pollutes: Medical dictionary

(Note: See pollute as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pollute)

verb:  (transitive) To make something harmful, especially by the addition of some unwanted product.
verb:  (transitive) To make something or somewhere less suitable for some activity, especially by the introduction of some unnatural factor.
verb:  To corrupt or profane
verb:  To violate sexually; to debauch; to dishonour.
adjective:  (rare) Polluted; defiled.
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