SOIL
Definition:
- [noun] the state of being covered with unclean things
Synonyms: dirt, filth, grime, stain, grease, grunge
- [noun] the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
Synonyms: dirt
- [noun] material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil"
Synonyms: land, ground
- [noun] the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"
Synonyms: territory
- [verb] make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
Synonyms: dirty, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
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Related Words:
- foul
- pollute, foul, contaminate
- smear
- slime
- muddy, muddy up
- splash
- mire, muck, mud, muck up
- crock
- blemish, spot
- marl
- regosol
- residual soil, residual clay
- topsoil, surface soil
- subsoil, undersoil
- alluvial soil
- bog soil
- clay
- clunch
- desert soil, desertic soil
- caliche, hardpan
- fuller's earth
- gilgai soil
- gumbo, gumbo soil
- humus
- indurated clay
- Indian red
- laterite
- loam
- loess
- mold, mould
- mud, clay
- bole
- podzol, podzol soil, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil
- prairie soil
- sand
- sedimentary clay
- silt
- till, boulder clay
- tundra soil
- wiesenboden
- badlands
- bottomland, bottom
- coastland
- cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land, tillage, tilth
- overburden
- permafrost
- rangeland
- turf, sod, sward, greensward
- wetland
