fouls

Meaning of fouls

plural noun
  1. (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
  2. a disease in the feet of cattle.
    he was indeed suffering from foul of the foot
verb, 3rd person present
  1. make foul or dirty; pollute.
    factories which fouled the atmosphere
  2. (in sport) commit a foul against (an opponent).
    United claim their keeper was fouled
  3. 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:

unfair

Meaning a person living in a country without official authorization:

illegal

Meaning not fair, generous, or sportsmanlike:

unsporting

Meaning unsporting:

unsportsmanlike

Meaning covered or marked with an unclean substance:

dirty

Meaning behaving or prone to behave in an untrustworthy, deceitful, or insincere way:

dishonest

Meaning acting or done in a secret or dishonest way:

underhand

Meaning having or showing no moral principles; not honest or fair:

unscrupulous

Meaning not based on or behaving according to what is morally right and fair:

unjust

Meaning (of a person or their behaviour) not acting in accordance with moral principles:

unprincipled

Meaning not conforming to accepted standards of morality:

immoral

Meaning bent or twisted out of shape or out of place:

crooked

Meaning obtained, done by, or involving deception, especially criminal deception:

fraudulent

Meaning situated in or full of shade:

shady

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:

soil

Meaning mark or discolour with something that is not easily removed:

stain

Meaning make or become black or dark, especially as a result of burning, decay, or bruising:

blacken

Meaning cover or fill (something) with mud:

muddy

Meaning blacken with ingrained dirt:

begrime

Meaning cause (liquid) to strike or fall on something in irregular drops:

splash

Meaning cover with drops or spots of something:

spatter

Meaning coat or mark (something) messily or carelessly with a greasy or sticky substance:

smear

Meaning make dirty; pollute:

befoul

Meaning damage (someone's reputation):

besmirch

Meaning have a severely detrimental effect on:

blight

Meaning damage the purity or appearance of; mar or spoil:

defile

Meaning contaminate (air, water, etc.) with harmful organisms:

infect

Meaning contaminate (water, the air, etc.) with harmful or poisonous substances:

pollute

Meaning make (something) impure by exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting substance:

contaminate

Meaning adulterate or contaminate with poison:

poison

Meaning affect with a bad or undesirable quality:

taint

Meaning render (something) poorer in quality by adding another substance:

adulterate

Meaning damage the purity or integrity of:

sully

Meaning smear or cover with a greasy or sticky substance:

besmear

fouls antonyms

Meaning a beautiful woman:

fair

Anagrams of fouls

Sulfo, sulfo

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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