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verb

Foul v. t. (past & past part. fouled; pres. part. 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.

Foul v. i.

1.

To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.

2.

To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.

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Etymology of 'Fouled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fouled" Quotes from Famous Books

... dissented Lord Hartledon, looking up from his skiff at the crowd of fair faces bent down upon him. "My arm is all right; it only gave me a few twinges when I first started. My oar fouled, and I could not get right again; so, finding I had lost too much ground, I gave up the contest. Anne, had I known I should disgrace my colours, I would not have ...

— Elster's Folly • Mrs. Henry Wood

... he looked round again upon the walls and the ceiling and the floor, and sitting down upon the wood that was to be his pillow, first girding up his kirtle that it might not be fouled, he sought to unite himself with all that he saw, that it might be his friend and not his foe. So he told me when I asked him, but I do not know if ...

— The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary • Robert Hugh Benson

... like a stuffy garage, and was full of blue gasoline fumes; and across this hurly-burly, which was increasing every minute, were carried the wounded, often nothing but human bundles of dirty blue cloth and fouled bandages. Every one of these wounded soldiers was saturated with mud, a gray-white mud that clung moistly to their overcoats, or, fully dry, colored every part of the uniform with its powder. One saw men that appeared to have rolled over and over in a puddle ...

— A Volunteer Poilu • Henry Sheahan

... have made a hash of my life—and then I wonder what is the foul poison that has got into things, and what is the dismal ugliness that seems smeared all over life, so that the soul seems like a beautiful bird caught in a slime-pit, and trying to struggle out, with its pinions fouled and dabbled, wondering miserably what it has done ...

— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson

... to rest. Despite disordered brain his sleep was sound. It was Gekkeiji's bell striking the ninth hour (1 A.M.) which roused; or else the throat fouled and dried his mouth. He was parched beyond measure; his tongue seemed to fill the whole cavity. Impatiently he called—"Heigh there! Water! Is there no one to attend?"—"At the lord's service...." The gentle tones of a woman made answer. She knelt at his ...

— Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House) - Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 (of 2) • James S. De Benneville

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