v
(transitive, archaic or obsolete) To make (something) dirty or soiled; to soil; to stain; to sully.
v
(transitive) To smear upon; to soil.
v
(archaic) to dirty, soil; make dirty.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To befoul; defile with ordure.
v
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To make filthy; befoul; soil.
v
(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.
v
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
v
(rare, US and UK, dialects, chiefly in the past tense) To smear (with something sticky or messy).
v
(transitive) To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter.
v
(transitive) To ingrain grime or dirt which is difficult to remove into (something); also (more generally), to make (something) dirty; to soil.
adj
Smeared, covered, or soiled with excrement.
v
(archaic) To soil with mud or a similar substance.
v
(obsolete) To soil or dirty
v
(transitive) To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
v
To make foul; befoul; soil.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To discharge ordure or dung upon.
v
(transitive, archaic) To make dirty with something slimy; befoul
v
(transitive) To soil; smear with mud or excrement; make dirty.
adj
Smeared over; soiled, sullied.
v
(transitive, literary) To make dirty.
v
(transitive) To besmirch; sully; befoul.
v
(transitive) To blacken with smut; foul with soot.
v
(transitive) To besmirch.
v
(transitive) To cover with or as with soil; stain; sully.
v
(transitive) To soil with soot; blacken with soot; besmut.
v
(dated, transitive) To spoil or pollute.
v
(transitive) To mark with stains; discolour; spot.
v
(transitive) To make sullied or soiled; defile
v
(obsolete) To soil or befoul; to beray.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To blacken; to dirty or soil.
v
(transitive) To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.
v
To smear, stain or smudge.
v
(dialect) To smear or become smeared with a grimy substance.
v
(transitive) To tarnish or soil.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To pollute; to defile.
v
(obsolete, or dialectal) To sully; to make dirty; to bemire.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become dirty or soiled
n
Grease which contains remnants of other materials (e.g. particles of food, metals, chemicals, dirt, etc.).
v
(rare, nonstandard, transitive) To cover with filth; besmut; besmirch; make filthy.
v
(transitive) To cover in filth.
v
(transitive) To besmirch.
v
(informal, transitive) To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
v
(transitive) To daub; dirty.
v
(transitive) To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage.
v
(transitive) To defile or taint.
adj
(figuratively) Weakened, extenuated.
v
(intransitive) To soil with mud or foul matter.
v
(British spelling, transitive, intransitive) To decay or rot.
v
(transitive) To make turbid.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To make or become muddy or muddied
v
(figuratively) To become contaminated or impure.
v
(of a body of water) To make muddy; to make clear water into muddy water.
v
(obsolete) To stain or soil; to defile.
v
(transitive) To clog or fill with silt.
v
(intransitive) To become filled or clogged with silt.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To besmirch or disparage.
v
To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.
v
(transitive) To smear or daub.
v
(transitive) (of a substance, etc.) To make a surface dirty by covering it.
adj
Tending to smear or soil.
v
(transitive) To dirty; to make dirty.
v
(obsolete, UK, dialect, transitive) To infect.
v
(transitive) To daub or smear.
v
(paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
v
(intransitive) To become tainted by the smut fungus.
v
To soil, stain or smudge.
v
(transitive) To make dirty; to soil.
v
(intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.
n
Act, process, or instance of soiling.
v
(UK, dialect) To soil; to make dirty.
adj
In trouble or in difficulty. (Compare in the soup.)
v
(obsolete) To soil or stain; to dirty.
v
To cause to seem inferior or soiled by comparison.
v
(intransitive) Of an animal: to stop; to refuse to go on.
n
That which sullies or defiles.
v
(transitive) To soil or stain; to dirty.
v
(transitive) To besmirch.
v
(transitive) To make clean (something formerly sullied).
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