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foulingverbpresent participle of foul to make dirtythe mechanic fouled the bath towels with axle grease befouling, begriming, bemiring, besmirching, blackening, daubing, dirtying, distaining(archaic), gauming(dialect), griming, miring, mucking, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullying contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingdiscoloringconfusing, disarranging, disarraying, disheveling(or dishevelling), disordering, draggling, jumbling, messing, muddlingcollying(chiefly British dialect), crocking(dialect) cleaning, cleansing decontaminating, purging, purifyingdisinfecting, sanitizingbrushing, dry-cleaning, dusting, laundering, mopping, rinsing, scouring, scrubbing, sweeping, washing, wipingbrightening, deodorizing, freshening, renewing, sprucing (up)straightening (up), tidying (up) to make unfit for use by the addition of something harmful or undesirableindustrial pollution fouling the water supply befouling, contaminating, defiling, poisoning, polluting, tainting infectingbegriming, besmirching, blackening, dirtying, fouling up, griming, miring, muddying, smirching, smudging, soiling, staining, sullyingcorrupting, rotting, spoilingadulterating, doctoringdiluting, watering down decontaminating, purifying clarifying, cleaning, cleansing, clearing, distilling, purgingfilteringdisinfecting, sanitizing, sterilizing to reduce to a lower standing in one's own eyes or in others' eyesthe minister was irreparably fouled by baseless rumors and allegations abasing, chastening, cheapening, debasing, degrading, demeaning, discrediting, disgracing, dishonoring, humbling, humiliating, lowering, shaming, sinking, smirching, taking down abashing, confounding, confusing, discomfiting, disconcerting, discountenancing, embarrassing, fazing, flustering, mortifying, nonplussing(also nonplusing), rattlingbelittling, castigating, criticizing, crying down, decrying, depreciating, detracting, diminishing, discounting, disparaging, minimizing, putting down, ridiculing, writing offbad-mouthing, defaming, defiling, libeling(or libelling), maligning, slanderingaffronting, insultingcensuring, condemning, damning, denouncing, execrating, reprehending, reprobating aggrandizing, canonizing, deifying, elevating, exalting acclaiming, applauding, boasting, celebrating, cheering, citing, commending, complimenting, congratulating, decorating, eulogizing, extolling, feting(or fêting), hailing, honoring, lauding, praising, saluting, toutingacknowledging, recognizinghighlighting, playing up, spotlightingdignifying, ennobling, enshrining, enskying, enthroning, glorifying, magnifyingadvancing, boosting, lifting, promoting, raising, upgrading, upliftingidealizing, romanticizing to go through decompositionunless you want to smell the organic refuse as it fouls, locate the compost heap away from the house breaking down, corrupting, decaying, decomposing, disintegrating, festering, moldering, molding, perishing(chiefly British), putrefying, rotting, spoiling souring, turning, turning off(British)contaminating, defiling, polluting, taintingaddling, curdling, fermentingmortifyingrustingcrumbling, declining, degenerating, descending, deteriorating, dilapidating, sinking, withering falling apart, going to seed(or running to seed) aging(or ageing), developing, growing, maturing, ripeningrefreshing, renewing, restoringcleansing, purifyingassembling, composing, integratingameliorating, bettering, improving, meliorating in the 14th century |