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Definition of polluting : 1. Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution.
2. of Pollute

Synonyms:

fouling, contaminating, smudging, smirching, defiling, besmirching, staining, smearing, streaking, sullying, tainting, tarnishing, dirtying, putrefying, muddying, befouling, soiling

Usage examples:

• And after polluting the Rostra with blood and dead bodies, they separated, leaving the city to anarchy, like a ship carried along without a pilot, so that sensible men were well content if matters should result in nothing worse than a monarchy after such madness and such tempest. - "Plutarch's Lives Volume III.", Plutarch.
• At the horror of his polluting touch all my nature seemed transformed. - "Cord and Creese", James de Mille.
• Indeed, Pattison speaks of literary ambition as being for the student not an amiable weakness, but a defiling and polluting sin. - "The Upton Letters", Arthur Christopher Benson.