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

Definitions

1. transitive 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.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Land; country.
4. noun. Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
5. transitive verb. To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
8. noun. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
9. intransitive verb. To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
10. noun. That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
11. noun. the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state

    "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil"

    Synonyms: territory

12. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: ground, land

13. noun. the state of being covered with unclean things

    Synonyms: dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, stain

14. noun. the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock

    Synonyms: dirt

15. verb. make soiled, filthy, or dirty

    "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!"

    Synonyms: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime

Synonyms

territory, ground, land, dirt, filth, grease, grime, grunge, stain, begrime, bemire, colly, dirty

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in soil:

lois, oils, silo, siol, soli

Common word forms

soils, soiled, soiling, soilless

Words from these letters

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