Foul

[faʊl]

Definition

(noun.) an act that violates the rules of a sport.

(verb.) become soiled and dirty.

(verb.) make unclean; 'foul the water'.

(verb.) spot, stain, or pollute; 'The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it'.

(verb.) commit a foul; break the rules.

(verb.) hit a foul ball.

(adj.) (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines .

Edited by Dinah--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A bird.

(superl.) Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.

(superl.) Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.

(superl.) Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.

(superl.) Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.

(superl.) Ugly; homely; poor.

(superl.) Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.

(superl.) Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.

(superl.) Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.

(v. t.) To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

(v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

(v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.

(v. t.) To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race.

(v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

(v. i.) To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

(n.) An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

(n.) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

Inputed by Franklin

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Impure, nasty, squalid, dirty, polluted, filthy, unclean, soiled, tarnished, stained, sullied.[2]. Disgusting, loathsome, offensive, noisome.[3]. Base, scandalous, infamous, vile, scurvy, unfair, dishonorable, sinister, wicked, dark, abominable, detestable, disgraceful, shameful.[4]. Obscene, vulgar, coarse, low.[5]. Abusive, insulting, scurrilous, foul-mouthed.[6]. Stormy, rainy, cloudy.

Checker: Ophelia

Synonyms and Antonyms

[See CORRUPT]

Typist: Lycurgus

Definition

adj. filthy: loathsome: obscene: impure: stormy: unfair: running against: distressing pernicious: choked up entangled: (Shak.) homely ugly.—v.t. to make foul: to soil: to effect a collision.—v.i. to come into collision:—pr.p. foul′ing; pa.p. fouled.—n. act of fouling: any breach of the rules in games or contests.—adj. Foul′-faced (Shak.) having a hatefully ugly face.—n. Foul′-fish fish during the spawning season.—adv. Foul′ly.—adjs. Foul′-mouthed Foul′-spok′en addicted to the use of foul or profane language.—ns. Foul-mouthed′ness; Foul′ness; Foul′-play unfair action in any game or contest dishonest dealing generally.—Claim a foul to assert that the recognised rules have been broken and that a victory is therefore invalid; Fall foul of to come against: to assault; Make foul water used of a ship to come into such shallow water that the keel raises the mud.

n. a light woollen dress material with a glossy surface.

Checker: Virgil