Cut
Cut verb - To alter (something) for the worse with the addition of foreign or lower-grade substances.
Usage example: the fruit juice was so cut with water that it was barely a fruit-flavored drink
Pollute
Pollute verb - To make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirable.
Common collocations
| line | cut line | pollute line |
Both words in one sentence
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: Factorio almost encourages you to play like a Captain Planet villain: clear cut forests, use up natural resources, pollute the environment for a vaguely-explained reason...all in the name of making your factory bigger and better.
Source: Videogame / Factorio
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Pollute and Cut. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/cut/pollute
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