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English Dictionary: fouled by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fouled
adj
  1. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
    Synonym(s): befouled, fouled
  2. especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor"
    Synonym(s): afoul(ip), foul, fouled
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Foul \Foul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fouled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Fouling}.]
      1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as,
            to foul the face or hands with mire.
  
      2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in
            the process of firing.
  
      3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its
            sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
  
      4. 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.
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