'Foul' definitions:

Definition of 'foul'

From: WordNet
adjective
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" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky]
adjective
Offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" [syn: fetid, foetid, foul, foul- smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill- scented]
adjective
Violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike]
adjective
(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines [ant: fair]
adjective
(of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" [syn: dirty, foul, marked-up]
adjective
Characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty]
adjective
Disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" [syn: filthy, foul, nasty]
adjective
Especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" [syn: afoul(ip), foul, fouled]
noun
An act that violates the rules of a sport
verb
Hit a foul ball
verb
Make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" [syn: pollute, foul, contaminate]
verb
Become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" [syn: clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul] [ant: unclog]
verb
Commit a foul; break the rules
verb
Spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" [syn: foul, befoul, defile, maculate]
verb
Make unclean; "foul the water"
verb
Become soiled and dirty

Definition of 'Foul'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Foul'

From: GCIDE
  • Foul \Foul\, v. i.
  • 1. To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Foul'

From: GCIDE
  • Foul \Foul\, n.
  • 1. An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Baseball) See Foul ball, under Foul, a. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Definition of 'Foul'

From: GCIDE
  • Foul \Foul\ (foul), n. [See Fowl.] A bird. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Foul'

From: GCIDE
  • Foul \Foul\ (foul), a. [Compar. Fouler (-[~e]r); superl. Foulest.] [OE. foul, ful, AS. f[=u]l; akin to D. vuil, G. faul rotten, OHG. f[=u]l, Icel. f[=u]l foul, fetid; Dan. fuul, Sw. ful foul, Goth. f[=u]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[=u]y to stink. [root]82. 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. [1913 Webster]
  • My face is foul with weeping. --Job. xvi. 16. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. "The foul with Sycorax." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • So foul a sky clears not without a storm. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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, or 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 foul of or To 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. [1913 Webster]

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