foul 音标拼音: [f'ɑʊl]
a . 污秽的,邪恶的,恶臭的,肮脏的,恶劣的,淤塞的
vt . 弄脏,妨害,污蔑,犯规
污秽的,邪恶的,恶臭的,肮脏的,恶劣的,淤塞的弄脏,妨害,污蔑,犯规
foul adj 1 :
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 " [
synonym : {
disgusting },
{
disgustful }, {
distasteful }, {
foul }, {
loathly },
{
loathsome }, {
repellent }, {
repellant }, {
repelling },
{
revolting }, {
skanky }, {
wicked }, {
yucky }]
2 :
offensively malodorous ; "
a foul odor "; "
the kitchen smelled really funky " [
synonym : {
fetid }, {
foetid }, {
foul }, {
foul -
smelling }, {
funky }, {
noisome }, {
smelly }, {
stinking }, {
ill -
scented }]
3 :
violating accepted standards or rules ; "
a dirty fighter ";
"
used foul means to gain power "; "
a nasty unsporting serve ";
"
fined for unsportsmanlike behavior " [
synonym : {
cheating (
a )},
{
dirty }, {
foul }, {
unsporting }, {
unsportsmanlike }]
4 : (
of a baseball )
not hit between the foul lines [
ant : {
fair }]
5 : (
of a manuscript )
defaced with changes ; "
foul (
or dirty )
copy " [
synonym : {
dirty }, {
foul }, {
marked -
up }]
6 :
characterized by obscenity ; "
had a filthy mouth "; "
foul language "; "
smutty jokes " [
synonym : {
cruddy }, {
filthy }, {
foul },
{
nasty }, {
smutty }]
7 :
disgustingly dirty ;
filled or smeared with offensive matter ;
"
as filthy as a pigsty "; "
a foul pond "; "
a nasty pigsty of a room " [
synonym : {
filthy }, {
foul }, {
nasty }]
8 :
especially of a ship '
s lines etc ; "
with its sails afoul "; "
a foul anchor " [
synonym : {
afoul (
ip )}, {
foul }, {
fouled }]
n 1 :
an act that violates the rules of a sport v 1 :
hit a foul ball 2 :
make impure ; "
The industrial wastes polluted the lake " [
synonym :
{
pollute }, {
foul }, {
contaminate }]
3 :
become or cause to become obstructed ; "
The leaves clog our drains in the Fall "; "
The water pipe is backed up " [
synonym :
{
clog }, {
choke off }, {
clog up }, {
back up }, {
congest },
{
choke }, {
foul }] [
ant : {
unclog }]
4 :
commit a foul ;
break the rules 5 :
spot ,
stain ,
or pollute ; "
The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it " [
synonym : {
foul }, {
befoul },
{
defile }, {
maculate }]
6 :
make unclean ; "
foul the water "
7 :
become soiled and dirty Foul \
Foul \ (
foul ),
n . [
See {
Fowl }.]
A bird . [
Obs .] --
Chaucer .
[
1913 Webster ]
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 .
[
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2 .
Scurrilous ;
obscene or profane ;
abusive ;
as ,
foul words ;
foul language .
[
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3 .
Hateful ;
detestable ;
shameful ;
odious ;
wretched . "
The foul with Sycorax ." --
Shak .
[
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Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ?
--
Milton .
[
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4 .
Loathsome ;
disgusting ;
as ,
a foul disease .
[
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5 .
Ugly ;
homely ;
poor . [
Obs .] --
Chaucer .
[
1913 Webster ]
Let us ,
like merchants ,
show our foulest wares .
--
Shak .
[
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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 .
[
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So foul a sky clears not without a storm . --
Shak .
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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 ]
Foul \
Foul \,
n .
1 .
An entanglement ;
a collision ,
as in a boat race .
[
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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 .]
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 .
[
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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 .
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1913 Webster ]
Foul \
Foul \,
v .
i .
1 .
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing ,
as a gun .
[
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2 .
To become entagled ,
as ropes ;
to come into collision with something ;
as ,
the two boats fouled .
[
1913 Webster ]
627 Moby Thesaurus words for "
foul ":
Fescennine ,
Rabelaisian ,
abase ,
abeyant ,
abhorrent ,
abject ,
abominable ,
abuse ,
abusive ,
adulterate ,
adulterated ,
adverse ,
affronting ,
afoul ,
amoral ,
angry ,
apathetic ,
arrant ,
asperse ,
atrocious ,
awful ,
bad ,
bad for ,
bag ,
bang ,
bang into ,
bar ,
barfy ,
base ,
bawdy ,
beastly ,
befoul ,
beggarly ,
begrime ,
belittle ,
belittling ,
below contempt ,
below the belt ,
benasty ,
beneath contempt ,
bent ,
besmirch ,
besoil ,
bind ,
black ,
blacken ,
blamable ,
blameworthy ,
blasphemous ,
block ,
block up ,
blockade ,
blocked ,
blow ,
blue ,
blustery ,
botch ,
bound ,
brackish ,
brutal ,
bugger up ,
bump ,
bump into ,
bung ,
bungle ,
calumniatory ,
calumnious ,
cankered ,
cannon ,
carious ,
carom ,
carom into ,
cataleptic ,
catatonic ,
catch ,
caught ,
caulk ,
cheesy ,
chink ,
choke ,
choke off ,
choke up ,
choked ,
choked up ,
clash ,
clog ,
clog up ,
clogged ,
clogged up ,
cloudy ,
cloying ,
coarse ,
collide ,
come into collision ,
comminatory ,
concuss ,
confront each other ,
congest ,
congested ,
constipate ,
constipated ,
contaminate ,
contaminated ,
contemptible ,
contumelious ,
convert ,
cork ,
corrupt ,
costive ,
cover ,
crack up ,
crappy ,
crash ,
crash into ,
criminal ,
crooked ,
crude ,
crummy ,
crump ,
crunch ,
cursing ,
cyclonic ,
dam ,
dam up ,
damnable ,
damnatory ,
dangerous ,
dark ,
dash into ,
dead ,
debase ,
debased ,
decayed ,
decomposed ,
defalcate ,
defamatory ,
defame ,
defile ,
defiled ,
degrade ,
degraded ,
demean ,
denigrate ,
denunciatory ,
deplorable ,
depraved ,
deprecative ,
deprecatory ,
depreciate ,
depreciative ,
depreciatory ,
derisive ,
derisory ,
derogate ,
derogatory ,
desecrate ,
despicable ,
detestable ,
devaluate ,
dire ,
dirty ,
disagreeable ,
discredit ,
disgrace ,
disgraceful ,
disgusting ,
dishonest ,
dishonor ,
dishonorable ,
disparage ,
disparaging ,
divert ,
dopey ,
dormant ,
double -
dealing ,
dreadful ,
dull ,
dysphemistic ,
egregious ,
embezzle ,
encounter ,
enmesh ,
enmeshed ,
enormous ,
ensnare ,
ensnared ,
entangle ,
entangled ,
entrap ,
epithetic ,
evil ,
excommunicative ,
excommunicatory ,
execrable ,
execratory ,
fall foul of ,
fecal ,
feculent ,
festering ,
fetid ,
fill ,
fill up ,
filthy ,
flagitious ,
flagrant ,
flat ,
flyblown ,
forbidden ,
forbidding ,
foul play ,
foul up ,
foul -
mouthed ,
foul -
spoken ,
foul -
tongued ,
fouled ,
fraudulent ,
frightful ,
frowsty ,
frowy ,
frowzy ,
full ,
fulminatory ,
fulsome ,
funky ,
fusty ,
gamy ,
gangrened ,
gangrenous ,
ghastly ,
gloppy ,
gone bad ,
goof up ,
grave ,
graveolent ,
grievous ,
grime ,
grisly ,
groggy ,
gross ,
grubby ,
gruesome ,
gunky ,
harmful ,
harpoon ,
hateful ,
heavy ,
heinous ,
hideous ,
high ,
hit ,
hit against ,
hook ,
horrible ,
horrid ,
hurt ,
hurtle ,
icky ,
ignoble ,
ignominious ,
ill -
smelling ,
illegal ,
illegality ,
immodest ,
immoral ,
impinge ,
imprecatory ,
improper ,
impure ,
in abeyance ,
in suspense ,
in trouble ,
inactive ,
indecent ,
indelicate ,
inert ,
infamous ,
infarcted ,
infect ,
infraction ,
infringement ,
iniquitous ,
injurious ,
insalubrious ,
insanitary ,
insulting ,
interdicted ,
invective ,
ithyphallic ,
jam ,
jammed ,
knavish ,
knock ,
knock against ,
lamentable ,
land ,
languid ,
languorous ,
lasso ,
latent ,
leaden ,
lewd ,
licentious ,
lifeless ,
little ,
loathsome ,
logy ,
louse up ,
lousy ,
low ,
low -
down ,
lumpen ,
lurid ,
maggoty ,
maladminister ,
maledictory ,
maligning ,
malodorous ,
mangy ,
mawkish ,
mean ,
measly ,
meet ,
mephitic ,
mesh ,
mess ,
mess up ,
miasmal ,
miasmic ,
mildewed ,
mildewy ,
misapply ,
misappropriate ,
misemploy ,
miserable ,
mishandle ,
mismanage ,
misuse ,
moldy ,
monstrous ,
morbific ,
mortified ,
mouldy ,
muck up ,
mucky ,
muff ,
musty ,
nail ,
nasty ,
naughty ,
nauseant ,
nauseating ,
nauseous ,
necrosed ,
necrotic ,
nefarious ,
net ,
nidorous ,
noisome ,
noose ,
not cricket ,
not fair ,
notorious ,
noxious ,
objectionable ,
objurgatory ,
obnoxious ,
obscene ,
obstipate ,
obstipated ,
obstruct ,
obstructed ,
odious ,
odorous ,
off ,
off color ,
offensive ,
olid ,
ordurous ,
outrageous ,
overripe ,
pack ,
packed ,
paltry ,
passive ,
pathogenic ,
peccant ,
peculate ,
percuss ,
perfidious ,
pervert ,
pestiferous ,
petty ,
phlegmatic ,
pilfer ,
pitiable ,
pitiful ,
plug ,
plug up ,
plugged ,
plugged up ,
poisonous ,
poky ,
pollute ,
polluted ,
poor ,
pornographic ,
profane ,
prohibited ,
prostitute ,
puky ,
putrefacient ,
putrefactive ,
putrefied ,
putrescent ,
putrid ,
raging ,
rainy ,
rancid ,
rank ,
raunchy ,
raw ,
reasty ,
reasy ,
rebarbative ,
reechy ,
reeking ,
reeky ,
regrettable ,
repellent ,
repelling ,
reprehensible ,
reprobate ,
reptilian ,
repugnant ,
repulsive ,
revolting ,
ribald ,
risque ,
rope ,
rotten ,
rotting ,
rough ,
rude ,
ruin ,
run into ,
sack ,
sad ,
salacious ,
scabby ,
scandalous ,
scatologic ,
scatological ,
schlock ,
scornful ,
screw up ,
scrubby ,
scruffy ,
scummy ,
scurfy ,
scurrile ,
scurrilous ,
scurvy ,
sedentary ,
septic ,
shabby ,
shady ,
shameful ,
shitty ,
shocking ,
shoddy ,
sickening ,
sideswipe ,
sinful ,
slabby ,
slack ,
slam into ,
slanderous ,
sleeping ,
sleety ,
slimy ,
sloppy ,
sloshy ,
sludgy ,
sluggish ,
slumbering ,
slushy ,
smack into ,
small ,
smash ,
smash into ,
smash up ,
smear ,
smellful ,
smelling ,
smelly ,
smirch ,
smoking -
room ,
smoldering ,
smooch ,
smudge ,
smutty ,
snafu ,
snag ,
snare ,
snarl ,
snarled ,
sniggle ,
snowy ,
soil ,
soiled ,
soily ,
sordid ,
soured ,
spear ,
sphacelated ,
spile ,
spoil ,
spoiled ,
sposhy ,
squalid ,
stagnant ,
stain ,
stale ,
stanch ,
standing ,
static ,
stay ,
stench ,
stenchy ,
stinking ,
stop ,
stop up ,
stopped ,
stopped up ,
stopper ,
stopple ,
storming ,
stormy ,
strike ,
strike against ,
strong ,
stuff ,
stuff up ,
stuffed ,
stuffed up ,
stuffy ,
suggestive ,
sulfurous ,
sully ,
sultry ,
suppurating ,
suppurative ,
suspended ,
taint ,
tainted ,
take ,
tame ,
tangle ,
tangle up with ,
tangled ,
tarnish ,
tempestuous ,
terrible ,
too bad ,
tornadic ,
torpid ,
traitorous ,
trap ,
treacherous ,
turbulent ,
turned ,
twist ,
two -
faced ,
typhonic ,
typhoonish ,
ulcerated ,
unaroused ,
unchaste ,
unclean ,
uncleanly ,
uncouth ,
underhanded ,
unfair ,
unfairness ,
unfavorable ,
unforgivable ,
unhealthful ,
unhealthy ,
unhygienic ,
unjust ,
unmentionable ,
unpardonable ,
unprintable ,
unrepeatable ,
unsanitary ,
unscrupulous ,
unspeakable ,
unsporting ,
unsportsmanlike ,
unsportsmanlikeness ,
unsportsmanliness ,
unsportsmanly ,
unwholesome ,
unworthy ,
venal ,
vicious ,
vile ,
villainous ,
violate ,
violation ,
vitiate ,
vituperative ,
vomity ,
vulgar ,
weevily ,
wet ,
whomp ,
wicked ,
windy ,
woeful ,
wormy ,
worst ,
worthless ,
wretched ,
wrong ,
yecchy ,
yucky
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FOUL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster The meaning of FOUL is offensive to the senses : loathsome How to use foul in a sentence Synonym Discussion of Foul offensive to the senses : loathsome; filled or covered with offensive matter; being odorous and impure : polluted… See the full definition Games; Word of the Day; Grammar; Wordplay; Slang; Rhymes; Word Finder
FOUL | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary FOUL definition: 1 extremely unpleasant: 2 Foul speech or other language is offensive, rude, or shocking: 3… Learn more