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Roughed up in the lane
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fouled
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foul \Foul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fouled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Fouling .] To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing. To cover ...
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adj. made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot" [syn: befouled ] especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" [syn: afoul(ip) , foul ]
Usage examples of fouled.
Harlan disentangled himself from fouled line and we both struck out away from the flotsam on the water.
If the EEC ship fouled up badly enough, and they all made a fireworks display that wouldn't be seen anywhere for fifty years or so, too bad.
If someone hadn't blown their cover, they might have gotten away without that great gaping hole in the side of her ship, or the fouled pods.
Lawrence Seaway fouled its propeller on a tangle of steel cables, origin unknown.
I tried buddy-breathing with the nearest cadet who still had some life in him, and he seemed to realize what I was trying to do, but when he breathed into the mask, it fouled it, and he died too.
Startled, she tried to hover and found her wings fouled with his, his neck winding tightly about hers.
The old woman had complained bitterly last evening that the water was fouled, deliberately.
Wirenth's claws sank into her back and Prideth writhed, her wings fouled by the talons which she could not disengage.
Dirty and torn clothes, no hint of money to attract unwanted attention in the Fenn, but not so fouled as to attract the opprobrious wrath of travellers in The Crow, where she had started her journey.
Derkhan watched quietly as he stripped off his fouled clothes and threw them in a pail with water and powdered soap.
It was not until the last mile of its distinct existence, where it passed Brock Marsh and a thousand laboratory outflows, that the Canker became fouled and dubious.
The arches were fouled with oil and soot, sprouting a microforest of mould and moss and tenacious climbing plants.
Her undine familiar trembled against her skin as she approached certain random patches of water, and she would arc away and pick another route through the fouled river by the magicians’ quarter.
Derkhan was sitting back from the brink a little, blinking rapidly, her eyes fouled with clods of brickdust from where a bullet had shattered the wall beside her.
Their droppings fouled its recently scrubbed surface, little pellets of white splattering against the dark stains where some noxious fluid had spilled copiously.