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English to English adjective
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(of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines |  | source: wordnet30
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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. | | source: webster1913
adjective satellite
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highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | | Example: a disgusting smell
distasteful language
a loathsome disease
the idea of eating meat is repellent to me
revolting food
a wicked stench
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offensively malodorous | | Example: a foul odor
the kitchen smelled really funky
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violating accepted standards or rules | | Example: a dirty fighter
used foul means to gain power
a nasty unsporting serve
fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
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(of a manuscript) defaced with changes | | Example: foul (or dirty) copy
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characterized by obscenity | | Example: had a filthy mouth
foul language
smutty jokes
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disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter | | Example: as filthy as a pigsty
a foul pond
a nasty pigsty of a room
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especially of a ship's lines etc | | Example: with its sails afoul
a foul anchor
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noun
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an act that violates the rules of a sport | | source: wordnet30
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A bird. | | source: webster1913
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An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. | | source: webster1913
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In various games or sports, an act done contrary to the rules; a foul stroke, hit, play, or the like. | | source: webster1913
verb
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hit a foul ball | | source: wordnet30
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make impure | | Example: The industrial wastes polluted the lake
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become or cause to become obstructed | | Example: The leaves clog our drains in the Fall
The water pipe is backed up
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commit a foul; break the rules | | source: wordnet30
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spot, stain, or pollute | | Example: The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it
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make unclean | | Example: foul the water
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become soiled and dirty | | source: wordnet30
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To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. | | source: webster1913
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To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. | | source: webster1913
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