pollute the well
puh-LOOT the WEL
pəˈluːt ðə wɛlListen
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corrupt or contaminate a common resource, shared narrative, or source of trust that many people depend on, making it harmful or unusable for the community; a form of poisoning the well in which a communal resource is deliberately or carelessly degraded; the literal image of a village's water source being made undrinkable captures the communal harm and the difficulty of reversing contamination once it has occurred; used in rhetoric to describe the corruption of public discourse, shared institutions, or natural commons through deliberate misinformation or reckless behaviour
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