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| soiled | |
| 1. adj. dirty |  |
| soil | |
| 1. n. A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. 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 | |
| 4. n. Country or territory. | |
| The refugees returned to their native soil. | |
| Kenyan soil | |
| 5. n. That which soils or pollutes; a stain. | |
| 6. n. 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. | |
| 7. n. Dung; compost; manure. | |
| night soil | |
| 8. v. To make dirty. | |
| 9. v. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled. | |
| Light colours soil sooner than dark ones. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. | |
| 11. v. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed. | |
| 12. v. To make invalid, to ruin. | |
| 13. v. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure. | |
| 14. n. (euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes. | |
| 15. n. (medicine) A bag containing soiled items. | |
| 16. n. A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted. | |
| 17. v. 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 (such food having the effect of purging them), to | |
| to soil a horse | |
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