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foul
has definitions from the fields of baseball,sport,games,nautical,sexuality
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[ verb ] make impure
Synonyms Examples "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" Used in print (Joseph Chadwick, No Land Is Free....)Their presence fouled the elegance of that room . Related terms dirty infect pollution befoulment pollutant contaminant defiler |
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[ adjective ] violating accepted standards or rules
Synonyms Examples "a dirty fighter" "used foul means to gain power" "a nasty unsporting serve" "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" Used in print (Richard S. Prather, "The Bawdy Beautiful," Cavalier...)How 's it strike you , foul or fair '' ? Related terms |
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[ adjective ] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Examples "a disgusting smell" "distasteful language" "a loathsome disease" "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me" "revolting food" "a wicked stench" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust
Examples "a disgusting smell" "distasteful language" "a loathsome disease" "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me" "revolting food" "a wicked stench" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] offensively malodorous
Examples "a putrid smell" Related terms |
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[ verb ] (baseball) hit a foul ball, in baseball
Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)John_Powell , batting for Adair , fanned after fouling off two 2 - and 2 pitches , and Buddy_Barker , up for Stepanovich , bounced_out sharply to Jerry_Lumpe at second to end the 2 - hour and - 27 - minute contest . |
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[ verb ] become foul or dirty
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[ adjective ] (informal) thoroughly unpleasant
Examples "filthy (or foul or nasty or vile) weather we're having" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines
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[ noun ] (sports) an act that violates of the rules of the sport
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