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We have spotted FOUL (4 Letters) a total of 24 times in our database. Below you may see the clues associated with FOUL and also when and where was it last seen:

Definition

• A bird.
• Covered with, or containing, extraneous matter which is injurious, noxious, offensive, or obstructive; filthy; dirty; not clean; polluted; nasty; defiled; as, a foul cloth; foul hands; a foul chimney; foul air; a ship's bottom is foul when overgrown with barnacles; a gun becomes foul from repeated firing; a well is foul with polluted water.
• Scurrilous; obscene or profane; abusive; as, foul words; foul language.
• Hateful; detestable; shameful; odious; wretched.
• Loathsome; disgusting; as, a foul disease.
• Ugly; homely; poor.
• Not favorable; unpropitious; not fair or advantageous; as, a foul wind; a foul road; cloudy or rainy; stormy; not fair; -- said of the weather, sky, etc.
• Not conformed to the established rules and customs of a game, conflict, test, etc.; unfair; dishonest; dishonorable; cheating; as, foul play.
• Having freedom of motion interfered with by collision or entanglement; entangled; -- opposed to clear; as, a rope or cable may get foul while paying it out.
• To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.
• To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.
• To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
• 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.
• To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun.
• To become entagled, as ropes; to come into collision with something; as, the two boats fouled.
• An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
• See Foul ball, under Foul, a.

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Usage among publishers:

  • USA Today: Dec 12, 2024
  • Newsday: Apr 23, 2024
  • Universal: Jan 6, 2024
  • USA Today: Oct 27, 2023
  • New York Times: Jul 3, 2023
  • Newsday: May 2, 2023