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Adjective fouled has 2 senses
- befouled, fouled - made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
Antonym: clean (indirect, via dirty)
- afoul, foul, fouled - especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
Antonym: untangled (indirect, via tangled)
Verb foul has 7 senses
- foul - hit a foul ball
--1 is one way to hit
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- pollute, foul, contaminate - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake"
--2 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
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- clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul - become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up"
--3 is one way to obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
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- foul - commit a foul; break the rules
--4 is one way to play
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- foul, befoul, defile, maculate - spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it"
--5 is one way to dishonor, disgrace, dishonour, attaint, shame
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- foul - make unclean; "foul the water"
--6 is one way to dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire
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- foul - become soiled and dirty
--7 is one way to change
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