foul | |
1. adj. Covered with, or containing unclean matter; dirty. | |
This cloth is too foul to use as a duster. | |
His foul hands got dirt all over the kitchen. | |
The air was so foul nobody could breathe. | |
A ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles | |
A well is foul with polluted water. | |
2. adj. (i, of words or a way of speaking) obscene, vulgar or abusive. | |
The rascal spewed forth a series of foul words. | |
His foul language causes many people to believe he is uneducated. | |
3. adj. Detestable, unpleasant, loathsome. | |
He has a foul set of friends. | |
4. adj. Disgusting, repulsive; causing disgust. | |
This foul food is making me retch. | |
There was a foul smell coming from the toilet. | |
5. adj. (obsolete) Ugly; homely; poor. | |
6. adj. (i, of the weather) Unpleasant, stormy or rainy. | |
Some foul weather is brewing. | |
7. adj. Dishonest or not conforming to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc. | |
Foul play is not suspected. | |
8. adj. (nautical) Entangled and therefore restricting free movement, not clear. | |
We've got a foul anchor. | |
a rope could get foul while paying it out. | |
9. adj. (baseball) Outside of the base lines; in foul territory. | |
Jones hit foul ball after foul ball. | |
10. v. To make dirty. | |
to foul the face or hands with mire | |
She's fouled her diaper. | |
11. v. To besmirch. | |
He's fouled his reputation. | |
12. v. To clog or obstruct. | |
The hair has fouled the drain. | |
13. v. (transitive, nautical) To entangle. | |
The kelp has fouled the prop. | |
14. v. (transitive, basketball) To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage. | |
Smith fouled him hard. | |
15. v. (transitive, baseball) To hit outside of the baselines. | |
Jones fouled the ball off the facing of the upper deck. | |
16. v. (intransitive) To become clogged. | |
The drain fouled. | |
17. v. (intransitive) To become entangled. | |
The prop fouled on the kelp. | |
18. v. (intransitive, basketball) To commit a foul. | |
Smith fouled within the first minute of the quarter. | |
19. v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a ball outside of the baselines. | |
Jones fouled for strike one. | |
20. subst. (sports) A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; for example, tripping someone up in soccer, or contact o | |
21. subst. (bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball. | |
22. subst. (baseball) A foul ball, a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines. | |
Jones hit a foul up over the screen. | |