soilure
9.9
An action that makes a place or object dirty
- noun
- Archaic
:
contaminación
- After playing outside, the children's soilure made it necessary for them to take a bath.
Examples
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The soilure of his shirt after the picnic was a clear indication of how much fun they had.
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The construction site was filled with the soilure of dirt and debris from the ongoing work.
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Ultimately, of course, no published work of literature can be considered entirely "disinterested," existing in a realm above and beyond the soilure of economic exchange.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
dirtiness
vssoilure
1
1.0
Not being clean because it has mud, dust or stains
refers to the action or process that creates that unclean state
1
3.9
An act of making something dirty, often with food or body waste
means the general act or process of making things dirty
dirtying
vssoilure
1
3.0
Making something dirty, for example clothes or walls
is about the ongoing act or process of making things dirty
9.1
Dirt or mess that makes something dirty
focuses on the action or process that produces that contamination
Antonyms
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Soilure comes from the common word soil, which means 'to make dirty', plus the ending -ure, which shows an 'act' or 'result'. So soilure is the act or process of making something dirty.