SOIL
\sˈɔ͡ɪl], \sˈɔɪl], \s_ˈɔɪ_l]\
Definitions of SOIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
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make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
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the state of being covered with unclean things
By Princeton University
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make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
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the state of being covered with unclean things
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
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The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
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Land; country.
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Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
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To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
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A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
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To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
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To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
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To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
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That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
By Oddity Software
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The ground: the mould on the surface of the earth which nourishes plants: country.
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Dirt: dung: foulness: a spot or stain.
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To make dirty: to stain: to manure.
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To take a soil: to tarnish.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman