foul
verb/faʊl/
/faʊl/
Verb Forms
Phrasal Verbs| present simple I / you / we / they foul | /faʊl/ /faʊl/ |
| he / she / it fouls | /faʊlz/ /faʊlz/ |
| past simple fouled | /faʊld/ /faʊld/ |
| past participle fouled | /faʊld/ /faʊld/ |
| -ing form fouling | /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/ /ˈfaʊlɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] foul somebody (in sport) to do something to another player that is against the rules of the game
- He was fouled inside the penalty area.
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- [intransitive, transitive] foul (something) (in baseball) to hit the ball outside the playing areaTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
- [transitive] foul something to make something dirty, especially with waste matter from the body
- Do not permit your dog to foul the grass.
- More and more beaches are being fouled by oil leakages.
- [transitive, intransitive] to become caught or twisted in something and stop it working or moving
Word OriginOld English fūl, of Germanic origin; related to Old Norse fúll ‘foul’, Dutch vuil ‘dirty’, and German faul ‘rotten, lazy’, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin pus, Greek puos ‘pus’, and Latin putere ‘to stink’.
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