FOUL
Definition:
- [noun] an act that violates of the rules of a sport
- [verb] hit a foul ball
- [verb] make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
Synonyms: pollute, contaminate
- [verb] become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
Synonyms: clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke
- [verb] commit a foul; break the rules
- [verb] spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
Synonyms: bedefile, maculate
- [verb] make unclean; "foul the water"
- [verb] become soiled and dirty
- [adjective] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench"
Synonyms: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky
- [adjective] offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell"
Synonyms: fetid, foetid, -smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, putrid, stinking
- [adjective] violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"
Synonyms: cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike
- [adjective] (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
- [adjective] (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"
Synonyms: dirty, marked-up
- [adjective] thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having"
Synonyms: filthy, nasty, vile
- [adjective] characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"
Synonyms: filthy, nasty, smutty
- [adjective] disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"
Synonyms: filthy, nasty
- [adjective] especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
Synonyms: aed
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