1. The act of soiling something
   "The toddler's soiling of the carpet required immediate cleaning";
   - soilure [archaic], dirtying

1. Make soiled, filthy, or dirty
   "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!";
   - dirty, begrime, grime, colly [archaic], bemire [archaic]
    
2. 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
    
3. (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
    
4. Make dirty by defecation
   "he soiled his pants"

Derived forms: soilings

Type of: alter, blob, blot, change, change of state, deflower, fleck, impair, mar, modify, pollute, spoil, spot, vitiate

Encyclopedia: Soiling