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1. The act of soiling something
   - 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. (of someone's image or good reputation) damage, place under suspicion or cast doubt upon
   - defile, sully, corrupt, taint, cloud, tarnish, stain
    
3. Make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air
   - tarnish, stain, maculate [literary], sully, defile
    
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

Antonym: clean

Encyclopedia: Soiling