fouls
Meaning of fouls
plural noun
- (in sport) an unfair or invalid stroke or piece of play, especially one involving interference with an opponent.
the midfielder was booked for a foul on Ford
- a disease in the feet of cattle.
he was indeed suffering from foul of the foot
- 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 fouls
- The singular form of fouls is: foul.
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Hyphenation of fouls
fouls
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- fouls is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
fouls synonyms
Meaning not based on or behaving according to the principles of equality and justice:
Meaning a person living in a country without official authorization:
Meaning not fair, generous, or sportsmanlike:
Meaning unsporting:
Meaning covered or marked with an unclean substance:
Meaning behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy, deceitful, or insincere way:
Meaning acting or done in a secret or dishonest way:
Meaning having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair:
Meaning not based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair:
Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) not acting in accordance with moral principles:
Meaning not conforming to accepted standards of morality:
Meaning bent or twisted out of shape or out of place:
Meaning obtained, done by, or involving deception, especially criminal deception:
Meaning situated in or full of shade:
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:
fouls antonyms
Meaning a beautiful woman:
Anagrams of fouls
Words that rhyme with fouls
befouls, defouls, cagouls, kagouls, ghouls, Louls, mouls, nouls, controuls, prouls, rouls, ensouls, insouls, oversouls, souls, unsouls
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