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Adjective: soiled soyld- Not clean, or likely to soil with dirt or grime
"soiled unswept pavements"; - dirty, unclean Verb: soil soyl- Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
"don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"; - dirty, begrime, grime, colly [archaic], bemire [archaic] - (of someone's image or good reputation) damage, place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
- defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud, tarnish, stain - Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
- tarnish, stain, maculate [literary], sully, defile - 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, grubby [informal], grungy, lousy, maculate [literary], manky [Brit, informal], mucky, muddy, nasty, oily, ratty, raunchy [US, informal], scroungy [US, informal], scummy, scungy [Austral, NZ, 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 Antonym: clean Encyclopedia: Soiled Soil, Soil |