Definition of foul Foul
/fawĖl/ - [fawl] - foul
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WordNet
NounPlural: fouls |
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| foul - an act that violates the rules of a sport | ||
| infringement, violation an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" | ||
| athletics, sport participation in sports events as an extracurricular activity | ||
| foul ball (baseball) a ball struck with the bat so that it does not stay between the lines (the foul lines) that define the width of the playing field | ||
| personal foul a foul that involves unnecessarily rough contact (as in basketball or football) | ||
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| foul - spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it" | ||
| befoul, defile, maculate | ||
| attaint, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, shame condemn by attainder; "the man was attainted" | ||
| foul - commit a foul; break the rules | ||
| play engage in an activity as if it were a game rather than take it seriously; "They played games on their opponents"; "play the stock market"; "play with her feelings"; "toy with an idea" | ||
| hack cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" | ||
| hack cough spasmodically; "The patient with emphysema is hacking all day" | ||
| foul - hit a foul ball | ||
| hit pay unsolicited and usually unwanted sexual attention to; "He tries to hit on women in bars" | ||
| baseball game, baseball a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | ||
| foul out baseball: hit a ball such that it is caught from an out in foul territory | ||
| foul - become soiled and dirty | ||
| change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" | ||
| foul - make unclean; "foul the water" | ||
| begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" | ||
| foul - make impure; "The industrial wastes polluted the lake" | ||
| pollute, contaminate | ||
| begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" | ||
| taint, infect contaminate with a disease or microorganism | ||
| foul - become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" | ||
| clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke | ||
| unclog become or cause to become unobstructed; "The chemical that we poured down the drain unclogged it" | ||
| obturate, occlude, impede, obstruct, close up, jam, block be a hindrance or obstacle to; "She is impeding the progress of our project" | ||
| gum up stick together as if with gum; "the inside of the pipe has gummed up" | ||
| crap up become obstructed or chocked up; "The drains clogged up" | ||
| choke up, lug, stuff, block carry with difficulty; "You'll have to lug this suitcase" | ||
| silt, silt up become chocked with silt; "The river silted up" | ||
Adjectivefoul, fouler, foulest |
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| foul - (of a baseball) not hit between the foul lines | ||
| fair (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion"; | ||
| baseball game, baseball a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" | ||
| foul - highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" | ||
| disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky | ||
| offensive unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses; "offensive odors" | ||
| foul - characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" | ||
| cruddy, filthy, nasty, smutty | ||
| dirty unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing" | ||
| foul - disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter; "as filthy as a pigsty"; "a foul pond"; "a nasty pigsty of a room" | ||
| filthy, nasty | ||
| soiled, unclean, dirty having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws; "unclean meat"; "and the swine...is unclean to you"-Leviticus 11:3 | ||
| foul - offensively malodorous; "a foul odor"; "the kitchen smelled really funky" | ||
| fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, funky, noisome, smelly, stinking, ill-scented | ||
| ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, stinky having an unpleasant smell | ||
| foul - violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" | ||
| cheating, dirty, unsporting, unsportsmanlike | ||
| unfair, unjust not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage" | ||
| foul - especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" | ||
| afoul, fouled | ||
| foul - (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" | ||
| dirty, marked-up | ||
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Wiktionary 
- foul (Noun)
A breach of the rules of a game, especially one involving inappropriate contact with an opposing player in order to gain an advantage; as, for example, foot-tripping in soccer, or contact of any kind in basketball. - foul (Noun)
A usually accidental contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball. - foul (Noun)
A foul ball , a ball which has been hit outside of the base lines. - foul (Verb)
To make dirty. - foul (Verb)
To besmirch. - foul (Verb)
To clog or obstruct. - foul (Verb)
To entangle. - foul (Verb)
To make contact with an opposing player in order to gain advantage. - foul (Verb)
To hit outside of the baselines. - foul (Verb)
To become clogged. - foul (Verb)
To become entangled. - foul (Verb)
To commit a foul. - foul (Verb)
To hit a ball outside of the baselines. - foul (Adjective)
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. - foul (Adjective)
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. - foul (Adjective)
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. - foul (Adjective)
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. - foul (Adjective)
Ugly; homely; poor. - foul (Adjective)
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. - foul (Adjective)
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc. ; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. - foul (Adjective)
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out. - foul (Adjective)
Outside of the base lines; in foul territory .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary š
- foul (n.)
A bird. - foul (superl.)
Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water. - foul (superl.)
Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language. - foul (superl.)
Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched. - foul (superl.)
Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease. - foul (superl.)
Ugly; homely; poor. - foul (superl.)
Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc. - foul (superl.)
Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play. - foul (superl.)
Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out. - foul (v. t.)
To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. - foul (v. t.)
To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. - foul (v. t.)
To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles. - foul (v. t.)
To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as, one boat fouled the other in a race. - foul (v. i.)
To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun. - foul (v. i.)
To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled. - foul (n.)
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race. - foul (n.)
See Foul ball, under Foul, a.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ī©
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foul
An act that violates the rules of a sport.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary š
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foul
fowl, adj. filthy: loathsome: obscene: impure: stormy: unfair: running against: distressing, pernicious: choked up, entangled: (Shak.) homely, ugly.āv.t. to make foul: to soil: to effect a collision.āv.i. to come into collision:āpr.p. foulā²ing; pa.p. fouled.ān. act of fouling: any breach of the rules in games or contests.āadj. Foulā²-faced (Shak.), having a hatefully ugly face.ān. Foulā²-fish, fish during the spawning season.āadv. Foulā²ly.āadjs. Foulā²-mouthed, Foulā²-spokā²en, addicted to the use of foul or profane language.āns. Foul-mouthedā²ness; Foulā²ness; Foulā²-play, unfair action in any game or contest, dishonest dealing generally.āClaim a foul, to assert that the recognised rules have been broken, and that a victory is therefore invalid; Fall foul of, to come against: to assault; Make foul water, used of a ship, to come into such shallow water that the keel raises the mud. [A.S. fĆŗl; Ger. faul, Goth. fĆ»ls.]
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine āļø
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foul
empecheƩ, as a sea-term, is generally used in opposition to clear, and implies intangled, embarrassed, or contrary, in the following senses:A ship ran foul of us in the river, i. e. entangled herself amongst our rigging. -
foul
when expressed of a shipās bottom, denotes that it is very dirty; as being covered with grass, sea-weeds, shells, or other filth which gathers to it during the course of a long voyage. When understood of the ground or bottom of a road, bay, sea-coast, or harbour, mal sain, it signifies rocky, or abounding with shallows, or otherwise dangerous.When spoken of the hawse, it means that the cables are turned round each other, by the winding or turning about of the ship while she rides at anchor. See ELBOW and HAWSE. -
foul
when applied to the wind, is used to express that it is unfavourable, or contrary to the shipās course, as opposed to large or fair.To FOUNDER, sancir, to sink at sea, as being rendered, by the violence and continuation of a storm, and the excess of the leaks, unable to keep the ship afloat above the water.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book āµ
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foul
Generally used in opposition to clear, and implies entangled, embarrassed, or contrary to: as "a ship ran foul of us," that is, entangled herself among our rigging. Also, to contaminate in any way.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue š
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foul
To foul a plate with a man, to take a dinner with him.
