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Soiled   /sɔɪld/   Listen
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Soil  v. t.  (past & past part. soiled; pres. part. soiling)  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.


Soil  v. t.  To enrich with soil or muck; to manure. "Men... soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop."


Soil  v. t.  
1.
To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. "Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained."
2.
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
Synonyms: To foul; dirt; dirty; begrime; bemire; bespatter; besmear; daub; bedaub; stain; tarnish; sully; defile; pollute.


Soil  v. i.  To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Soiled" Quotes from Famous Books



... Judith. Yes! thou hast soiled me: to know my beauty, Wherewith I loved Manasses, and still love, Has all these years dwelt in thy heart a dream Of favourite lust,—O this ...
— Emblems Of Love • Lascelles Abercrombie
... spotless be As when my stains were cleansed by Thee, Who bad'st me 'neath the Jordan's wave Of yore my soiled spirit lave. ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
... laughed. Honorable Patches showed the effect of his strenuous and bungling efforts to learn the rudiments of the apparently simple trick of roping a calf. His face was streaked with sweat and dust, his hair disheveled, and his clothing soiled and stained. But his eyes were bright, and his bearing eager ...
— When A Man's A Man • Harold Bell Wright
... indeed! Their pretty gingham frocks were limp and stringy with dampness, and soiled and stained from contact with the buckets and the moss-grown sides ...
— Marjorie's Vacation • Carolyn Wells
... my coat is seedy. And I know my collar is soiled; but the two I left at the laundry won't ...
— The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow" • Upton Sinclair


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