fouling
Meaning of fouling
- make foul or dirty; pollute.
factories which fouled the atmosphere
- (in sport) commit a foul against (an opponent).
United claim their keeper was fouled
- collide with or obstruct.
the ships became overcrowded and fouled each other
will have to work towards solutions to prevent trucks from fouling railroad tracks
Old English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’.
Information about fouling
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of fouling is: foulings.
- Languages in which fouling is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of fouling
foul-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- fouling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
fouling synonyms
Meaning make dirty:
Meaning the upper layer of earth in which plants grow, a black or dark brown material typically consisting of a mixture of organic remains, clay, and rock particles:
Meaning mark or discolour with something that is not easily removed:
Meaning make or become black or dark, especially as a result of burning, decay, or bruising:
Meaning cover or fill (something) with mud:
Meaning blacken with ingrained dirt:
Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:
Meaning cover with drops or spots of something:
Meaning coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance:
Meaning make dirty; pollute:
Meaning damage (someone's reputation):
Meaning have a severely detrimental effect on:
Meaning damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil:
Meaning contaminate (air, water, etc.) with harmful organisms:
Meaning contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances:
Meaning make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:
Meaning adulterate or contaminate with poison:
Meaning affect with a bad or undesirable quality:
Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:
Meaning damage the purity or integrity of:
Meaning smear or cover with a greasy or sticky substance:
Words that rhyme with fouling
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