different between polluting vs dirtying
polluting
English
Verb
polluting
- present participle of pollute
Adjective
polluting (comparative more polluting, superlative most polluting)
- Adapted or tending to pollute; causing defilement or pollution.
References
- polluting in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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dirtying
English
Verb
dirtying
- present participle of dirty
Noun
dirtying (plural dirtyings)
- A soiling or making dirty.
- 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
- Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]
- 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor
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