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| 1. | [ verb ] make impure | |
| Synonyms: | contaminate pollute | |
| Examples: | "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" |
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| Related terms: | dirty infect pollution befoulment pollutant contaminant defiler | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] violating accepted standards or rules | |
| Synonyms: | dirty unsporting unsportsmanlike cheating | |
| Examples: | "a dirty fighter" "used foul means to gain power" "a nasty unsporting serve" "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" |
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| Related terms: | unfair | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | |
| Synonyms: | disgusting loathsome repelling skanky loathly repellant repellent revolting distasteful wicked yucky disgustful | |
| Examples: | "a disgusting smell" "distasteful language" "a loathsome disease" "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me" "revolting food" "a wicked stench" |
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| Related terms: | offensive | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | |
| Synonyms: | disgusting loathsome revolting yucky loathly repellent repellant wicked distasteful disgustful | |
| Examples: | "a disgusting smell" "distasteful language" "a loathsome disease" "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me" "revolting food" "a wicked stench" |
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| Related terms: | offensive | |
| 5. | [ adjective ] offensively malodorous | |
| Synonyms: | foul-smelling fetid stinking noisome funky putrid smelly foetid | |
| Examples: | "a putrid smell" |
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| Related terms: | malodorous | |
| 6. | [ verb ] (baseball) hit a foul ball, in baseball | |
| Related terms: | hit foul_out baseball | |
| 7. | [ verb ] become or cause to become obstructed | |
| Synonyms: | clog choke_off back_up congest choke clog_up | |
| Examples: | "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall" "The water pipe is backed up" |
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| Related terms: | unclog obstruct stuff silt_up gum_up crap_up congestion | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] (nautical) especially of a ship's lines etc | |
| Synonyms: | fouled afoul | |
| Examples: | "with its sails afoul" "a foul anchor" |
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| Related terms: | tangled | |
| 9. | [ verb ] spot, stain, or pollute | |
| Synonyms: | defile maculate befoul | |
| Examples: | "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" |
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| Related terms: | dishonor macule defiler befoulment | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (sexuality) characterized by obscenity | |
| Synonyms: | nasty smutty filthy | |
| Examples: | "had a filthy mouth" "foul language" "smutty jokes" |
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| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 11. | [ adjective ] disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | |
| Synonyms: | filthy nasty | |
| Examples: | "as filthy as a pigsty" "a foul pond" "a nasty pigsty of a room" |
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| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 12. | [ verb ] become foul or dirty | |
| Related terms: | change | |
| 13. | [ adjective ] (informal) thoroughly unpleasant | |
| Synonyms: | vile nasty filthy | |
| Examples: | "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having" |
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| Related terms: | colloquialism inclement | |
| 14. | [ adjective ] (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines | |
| Related terms: | fair baseball out-of-bounds out-of-bounds | |
| 15. | [ adjective ] (of a manuscript) defaced with changes | |
| Synonyms: | marked-up dirty | |
| Examples: | "foul (or dirty) copy" |
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| Related terms: | illegible | |
| 16. | [ verb ] (games) commit a foul; break the rules | |
| Related terms: | play hack hack | |
| 17. | [ noun ] (sports) an act that violates of the rules of the sport | |
| Related terms: | violation technical personal_foul sport | |
| 18. | [ verb ] make foul | |
| Examples: | "foul the water" |
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| Related terms: | dirty | |
| 19. | [ noun ] (in baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field | |
| Synonyms: | foul_ball | |
| Related terms: | fair_ball contact baseball baseball | |
| Similar spelling: |
foully fowl fool foil foal Fowle folly folio folie Foley follow |
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