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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Foul \Foul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fouled}; p. pr & vb n. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: fouled adj 1: made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot" [syn: {befouled}] 2: especially of a ship's lines etc "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" [syn: {afoul(ip)}, {foul}]
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