Foul

[foul]

Foul is most commonly used as an adjective to describe a bad smell. As a verb, foul usually means “make dirty or messy.” You might foul your room to the point where it smells a bit foul.

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A bird.

Noun
an act that violates of 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
make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"

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Verb
commit a foul; break the rules

Verb
hit a foul ball

Verb
become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"

Adjective S.
especially of a ship''s lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"

Adjective S.
disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room"

Adjective S.
characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes"

Adjective S.
thoroughly unpleasant; "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we''re having"

Adjective
(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines

Adjective S.
violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior"

Adjective S.
offensively malodorous; "a putrid smell"

Adjective S.
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy"

Adjective S.
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"

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.

Foul

Foul , n. [See Fowl.] A bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Foul

Foul , a. [Compar. Fouler (-&etil;r); superl. Foulest.] [OE. foul, ful, AS. f&umac;l; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. f&umac;l, Icel. f&umac;l foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. f&umac;ls fetid, Lith. puti to be putrid, L. putere to stink, be putrid, pus pus, Gr. py`on pus, to cause to rot, Skr. p&umac;y to stink. 'fb82. Cf. Defile to foul, File to foul, Filth, Pus, Putrid.] 1. 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.
My face is foul with weeping.
2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. 3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." Shak.
Who first seduced them to that foul revolt?
4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. 5. Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares.
6. 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.
So foul a sky clears not without a storm.
7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. 8. 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. Foul anchor. (Naut.) See under Anchor. -- Foul ball (Baseball), a ball that first strikes the ground outside of the foul ball lines, or rolls outside of certain limits. -- Foul ball lines (Baseball), lines from the home base, through the first and third bases, to the boundary of the field. -- Foul berth (Naut.), a berth in which a ship is in danger of fouling another vesel. -- Foul bill, ∨ Foul bill of health, a certificate, duly authenticated, that a ship has come from a place where a contagious disorder prevails, or that some of the crew are infected. -- Foul copy, a rough draught, with erasures and corrections; -- opposed to fair or clean copy. "Some writers boast of negligence, and others would be ashamed to show their foul copies." Cowper. -- Foul proof, an uncorrected proof; a proof containing an excessive quantity of errors. -- Foul strike (Baseball), a strike by the batsman when any part of his person is outside of the lines of his position. -- To fall foul, to fall out; to quarrel. [Obs.] "If they be any ways offended, they fall foul." Burton. -- To fall, ∨ run, foul of. See under Fall. -- To make foul water, to sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.

Foul

Foul , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fouled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fouling.] 1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. 2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. 3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. 4. 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.

Foul

Foul, v. i. 1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. 2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

Foul

Foul, n. 1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. 2. (Baseball) See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

A bird.

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.

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

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

An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.

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Usage Examples

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.

To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.

In the deregulated realm of US banking and finance, crime does occasionally pay for its foul deeds, not in prison time but by making modest rebates to the victims.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God's way to say nobody's perfect.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

In fair weather prepare for foul.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.