fouled
- adjective
- /faʊld/
:
contaminado
- The lake was fouled by industrial waste, making it unsafe for swimming.
Examples
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After the storm, the beach was fouled with debris and pollution.
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The once beautiful park was fouled with litter after the festival.
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Where have you drawn off all of foul liquid and meat?
Synonyms
525
1.0
Not clean or covered with dirt
233
1.0
Not tidy or clean, with things in the wrong place
183
1.5
Very dirty and covered with mud or dirt
7
3.2
Dirty and covered in mud
7
1.3
Dirty and covered in dust, food, or grease
4
7.0
Dirty and untidy, often wet after being in rain or mud
2
4.2
Containing other unwanted substances so it is not clean
1
2.5
Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
1
8.8
Made dirty by waste, chemicals, or lies
Something that becomes unsafe because it touches something dirty or harmful
Not safe to use because dangerous chemicals are in the air, water, or soil
Spoiled and unsafe because it has rot or something harmful
Not cleaned and may have germs or dirt
Covered thickly with dark dirt or soot
Antonyms
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word fouled comes from the old English word foul, which meant 'dirty' or 'rotten', so something fouled has been made dirty, polluted, or covered in waste.