Soiled

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soil \Soil\ (soil), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Soiled} (soild); p. pr.
     & vb. n. {Soiling}.] [OF. saoler, saouler, to satiate, F.
     so[^u]ler, L. satullare, fr. satullus, dim. of satur sated.
     See {Satire}.]
     To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure,
     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 purge by feeding on green food;
     as, to soil a horse.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  soiled
       adj : soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept
             sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums";
             "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the
             clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a
             dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her
             sisters preened themselves" [syn: {dirty}, {unclean}]
             [ant: {clean}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  33 Moby Thesaurus words for "soiled":
     bedraggled, befouled, besmirched, blackened, darkened, defiled,
     dirtied, discolored, drabbled, draggled, fouled, foxed, foxy,
     impure, indecent, inky, maculate, murky, smirched, smoky, smudged,
     spotted, stained, stigmatic, stigmatiferous, stigmatized, sullied,
     tainted, tarnished, unchaste, unclean, unvirginal, unvirtuous