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soil
soil is a 4-letter English word with 15 senses as transitive verb, noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 5 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 5 · 15 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
- 2noun
The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
- 3noun
Land; country.
- 4noun
Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
- 5transitive verb
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- 6noun
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- 7noun
To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
- 8noun
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- 9intransitive verb
To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
- 10noun
That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
- 11noun
the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state
"American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"
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- 12noun
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
"the land had never been plowed"
"good agricultural soil"
- 13noun
the state of being covered with unclean things
- 14noun
the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
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- 15verb
make soiled, filthy, or dirty
"don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"
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