Examples: The industrial wastes polluted the lake
Examples: The leaves clog our drains in the Fall The water pipe is backed up
Examples: The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it
Examples: foul the water
Examples: a disgusting smell distasteful language a loathsome disease the idea of eating meat is repellent to me revolting food a wicked stench
Examples: a foul odor the kitchen smelled really funky
Examples: a dirty fighter used foul means to gain power a nasty unsporting serve fined for unsportsmanlike behavior
Examples: foul (or dirty) copy
Examples: had a filthy mouth foul language smutty jokes
Examples: as filthy as a pigsty a foul pond a nasty pigsty of a room
Examples: with its sails afoul a foul anchor
foul (English)└── fulian (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
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