- Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
"don't soil your clothes when you play outside!";
- dirty, begrime, grime, colly [archaic], bemire [archaic]
- Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
"The silver was soiled by the long exposure to the air";
- tarnish, stain, maculate [literary], sully, defile
- (of someone's image or good reputation) damage, place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
"the scandal soild his good reputation";
- defile, sully, taint, cloud, stain, tarnish
- Make dirty by defecation
"he soiled his pants"
See also: Augean, bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, black, buggy, cleanness, cobwebbed, cobwebby, cruddy [informal], dingy, dirty-faced, draggled, feculent, filthy, flyblown, foul, fouled, greasy, grimy, grotty [Brit, informal], grubby [informal], grungy [informal], lousy, maculate [literary], manky [Brit, informal], mucky, muddy, nasty, oily, ratty, raunchy [US, informal], scroungy [US, informal], scummy, scungy [Austral, NZ, informal], skanky [informal], skeevy [US, informal], smudgy, smutty, snot-nosed [informal], snotty [informal], sooty, sordid, squalid, travel-soiled, travel-stained, uncleanly [archaic], unswept, untidy, unwashed
Type of: alter, blob, blot, change, deflower, fleck, impair, mar, modify, pollute, spoil, spot, vitiate
Encyclopedia: Soiled
Soil, Soil