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▸ noun: (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
▸ noun: (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
▸ noun: Country or territory.
▸ noun: That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
▸ noun: A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
▸ noun: Dung; compost; manure.
▸ verb: (transitive) To make dirty.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
▸ verb: (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
▸ verb: (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
▸ verb: To make invalid, to ruin.
▸ verb: To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
▸ noun: (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
▸ noun: (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.
▸ noun: A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
▸ verb: To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (due to such food having the effect of purging them) to purge by feeding on green food.
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