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as in to stain

to make dirty

oil and grease soiled the mechanic’s shirt

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• adj.

  • Other relevant words: (adjective)

  • dirty,
  • grunge.

• n.

  •
  • agronomy,
  • agrochemical,
  • agrarian,
  • breed,
  • the CAP,
  • Agronomics,
  • agriculture,
  • agricultural,
  • agroindustry,
  • agribusiness.
  •
  • attack,
  • cloud.
  •
  • corrupt,
  • infect.

  • begrime (noun)

  • begrime.

  • colly (noun)

  • colly.

  • country (noun)

  • in habitants,
  • in-habitants,
  • in-habitant,
  • in habitant,
  • sovereign states,
  • patrias.

  • dirt (noun)

  • dreck,
  • sleazes,
  • gooks,
  • sleaze,
  • clay,
  • Feculence,
  • scuz,
  • rottenness,
  • grime,
  • gunk,
  • gook.

  • dust (noun)

  • sand,
  • granule,
  • dust bunnies,
  • loess,
  • gilings,
  • dust bunny,
  • lint,
  • granules,
  • sands.

  • earth, dirt (noun)

  • soot,
  • dry land,
  • terra firma.

  • farm (noun)

  • freeholds,
  • de mense,
  • de-menses,
  • de-mense,
  • demenses,
  • de menses.

  • filth (noun)

  • filth.

  • grease (noun)

  • grease.

  • ground (noun)

  • old sods.

  • home (noun)

  • neck the woods,
  • camping grounds,
  • neck woods.

  • land (noun)

  • beach,
  • stone,
  • bank,
  • mainland,
  • shore,
  • coast,
  • earth.

  • land where one lives (noun)

  • spread.

  • Other relevant words: (noun)

  • hometown,
  • Arboreta,
  • landscape,
  • ground,
  • camping ground,
  • homeland,
  • dirt,
  • topography,
  • realms,
  • divot,
  • the lay of the land,
  • region,
  • Patria,
  • citizenry,
  • farmsteads,
  • dust,
  • homestead,
  • peat,
  • lawn,
  • farm,
  • country,
  • homesteads,
  • hometowns,
  • home,
  • Peats,
  • turf,
  • fireside,
  • home grounds,
  • greensward,
  • stomping ground,
  • greenswards,
  • home ground,
  • sod,
  • old sod,
  • freehold,
  • stomping grounds,
  • arboretum,
  • arboretums,
  • farmstead,
  • firesides,
  • demense,
  • neck of woods,
  • grass roots,
  • locality,
  • peoples,
  • swards,
  • grange,
  • loam,
  • DIVOTS,
  • sovereign state,
  • loams,
  • land,
  • sward,
  • citizenries,
  • terrain.

  • terrain (noun)

  • pro files,
  • pro file,
  • pro-files,
  • pro-file.

  • topography (noun)

  • lay land,
  • lay of land,
  • the lay of land,
  • the lay land,
  • the lay the land,
  • lay the land.

• v.

  • bedaub (verb)

  • be-daub,
  • be daub,
  • be-daubing,
  • be daubed,
  • be-daubed,
  • be daubing,
  • be daubs,
  • be-daubs.

  • befoul (verb)

  • be-foul,
  • be foul,
  • be-fouling,
  • be fouled,
  • be-fouled,
  • be fouling,
  • be fouls,
  • be-fouls.

  • bemire (verb)

  • be-mire,
  • be mire,
  • be-mires,
  • be mired,
  • be-mired,
  • be mires,
  • be miring,
  • be-miring.

  • besmear (verb)

  • be-smear,
  • be smear,
  • be-smearing,
  • be smeared,
  • be-smeared,
  • be smearing,
  • be smears,
  • be-smears.

  • besmirch (verb)

  • be-smirch,
  • be smirch,
  • be-smirches,
  • be smirched,
  • be-smirched,
  • be smirches,
  • be smirching,
  • be-smirching.

  • blacken (verb)

  • be grimed,
  • makes dark,
  • ebonizes,
  • be griming,
  • making dark,
  • grew dim,
  • be-griming,
  • be-grime,
  • be grimes,
  • Ebonized,
  • growing dark,
  • made dark,
  • be grime,
  • be-grimed,
  • grows dark,
  • be-grimes,
  • Ebonizing,
  • growing dim.

  • blot (verb)

  • be spatters,
  • be spatter,
  • be-spatters,
  • be spattering,
  • bespatters,
  • be-spattering,
  • be spattered,
  • be-spattered,
  • be-spatter.

  • contaminate (verb)

  • mucks up,
  • de-based,
  • radio-activates,
  • de based,
  • de-basing,
  • radio-activated,
  • radio activates,
  • radio activating,
  • pro-fanes,
  • radio-activate,
  • pro fanes,
  • radioactivating,
  • de basing,
  • radio activate,
  • de base,
  • radio-activating,
  • radio activated,
  • pro fane,
  • radioactivates,
  • pro-fane,
  • mucking up,
  • de-base.

  • defile (verb)

  • de-files,
  • de flowered,
  • de grade,
  • maculates,
  • dis-grace,
  • dis gracing,
  • de-flowers,
  • de filing,
  • scuzzed up,
  • dis graced,
  • dis honored,
  • de flower,
  • dis honors,
  • made foul,
  • de-flower,
  • dis-graces,
  • de-file,
  • de-grade,
  • de grading,
  • de-flowered,
  • de graded,
  • making foul,
  • de files,
  • de-graded,
  • de file,
  • scuzzing up,
  • dis-honored,
  • maculating,
  • de-filed,
  • de flowers,
  • dis-gracing,
  • dis-honor,
  • de-flowering,
  • de-grades,
  • makes foul,
  • dis-honoring,
  • de-grading,
  • dis-honors,
  • de-filing,
  • de filed,
  • dis-graced,
  • dis honor,
  • de flowering,
  • de grades,
  • scuzzes up,
  • dis honoring,
  • dis grace,
  • dis graces.

  • dirty (verb)

  • putrefy,
  • muddy,
  • sully,
  • streak.

  • discolor (verb)

  • dis-color,
  • dis-colors,
  • dis color,
  • dis-colored,
  • disco-loring,
  • dis-coloring,
  • dis colors,
  • dis coloring,
  • disco loring,
  • dis colored.

  • disrespect (verb)

  • disrespect,
  • disesteem,
  • insult.

  • make dirty (verb)

  • crumb,
  • muss,
  • spoil,
  • mess,
  • bedraggle,
  • muck,
  • muss up,
  • disgrace,
  • debase,
  • degrade,
  • shame.

  • malign (verb)

  • mis represented,
  • mis representing,
  • spake ill of,
  • de-cried,
  • mis-representing,
  • de-cries,
  • bad mouth,
  • re vile,
  • mis-represent,
  • de tracts,
  • takes a swipe at,
  • de-cry,
  • speaking ill of,
  • villainizes,
  • took swipe at,
  • villainized,
  • taking a swipe at,
  • de cried,
  • mudslings,
  • takes swipe at,
  • took a swipe at,
  • de cry,
  • opprobriates,
  • speaks ill of,
  • de crying,
  • mis-represented,
  • re-vile,
  • opprobriating,
  • taking swipe at,
  • mis-represents,
  • opprobriated,
  • spoke ill of,
  • de cries,
  • de-crying,
  • de tract,
  • de-tract,
  • mudslinged,
  • villainizing,
  • de-tracts,
  • mis represents,
  • mis represent.

  • mess up (verb)

  • dis arranges,
  • dis organizes,
  • up-sets,
  • de-stroyed,
  • dis-organize,
  • de stroyed,
  • de-ranging,
  • un settles,
  • de-range,
  • dis-composes,
  • dis composed,
  • dis-arranges,
  • dis-composed,
  • up-setting,
  • de range,
  • de-stroying,
  • de-stroy,
  • dis-organizes,
  • up setting,
  • dis composing,
  • dis-arrange,
  • dis-arranged,
  • dis compose,
  • dis-organized,
  • un settling,
  • dis composes,
  • de ranges,
  • dis organize,
  • goofing up,
  • un-settle,
  • dis-composing,
  • de ranged,
  • dis-organizing,
  • de stroying,
  • dis arranged,
  • bollixes,
  • de-ranged,
  • un settled,
  • de-stroys,
  • goofs up,
  • de stroy,
  • un-settled,
  • dis organizing,
  • dis-arranging,
  • un settle,
  • dis arranging,
  • de-ranges,
  • up sets,
  • dis-compose,
  • dis arrange,
  • de stroys,
  • dis organized,
  • goofed up,
  • up-set,
  • un-settling,
  • de ranging.

  • mire (verb)

  • de-tains,
  • slows down,
  • slowing down,
  • hanged up,
  • slowing up,
  • hanging up,
  • de-tain,
  • de tains,
  • slows up,
  • de tain.

  • pollute (verb)

  • makes filthy,
  • made filthy,
  • making filthy.

  • smear (verb)

  • over-laid,
  • over lays,
  • over-lay,
  • over-spreading,
  • over-lays,
  • over spreading,
  • over laying,
  • over-spreads,
  • over laid,
  • over-spread,
  • over spreads,
  • over-laying.

  • smirch (verb)

  • co untried,
  • co untrying,
  • countried,
  • co-untrying,
  • countrying,
  • co-untried.

  • spatter (verb)

  • dis charge,
  • dis-charging,
  • polka dotted,
  • be-strew,
  • polkadotting,
  • be strews,
  • dis-charges,
  • polka dots,
  • dis-perse,
  • polka-dotted,
  • dis-charged,
  • polkadots,
  • polkadot,
  • dis charged,
  • polka-dotting,
  • be-strews,
  • polka-dots,
  • be-strewing,
  • dis perse,
  • be-strewn,
  • dis-charge,
  • polkadotted,
  • dis charging,
  • be strewing,
  • be-strewed,
  • be strewn,
  • be strew,
  • polka dotting,
  • be strewed,
  • dis charges.

  • spot (verb)

  • pimpling.

  • stain (verb)

  • de moralizing,
  • de moralize,
  • drags through mud,
  • co-loring,
  • dragged through mud,
  • de moralized,
  • de-moralizing,
  • dragging through mud,
  • de-moralize,
  • de-moralizes,
  • drags through the mud,
  • dragging through the mud,
  • co loring,
  • dragged through the mud,
  • de-moralized,
  • de moralizes.

  • taint (verb)

  • dis-integrated,
  • dis integrating,
  • crudding up,
  • de composing,
  • de composed,
  • dis-crediting,
  • casts slur,
  • giving bad name,
  • dis-integrating,
  • casting slur,
  • co oking,
  • gives a bad name,
  • crudded up,
  • de-composes,
  • dis-integrate,
  • dis credited,
  • dis crediting,
  • dis integrate,
  • de-cays,
  • giving a bad name,
  • co oked,
  • de cays,
  • de cay,
  • dis credits,
  • de-compose,
  • co-oked,
  • dis credit,
  • gives bad name,
  • dis-credit,
  • de composes,
  • cruds up,
  • breaks down,
  • dis-credits,
  • dis-integrates,
  • broke down,
  • dis-credited,
  • casting a slur,
  • give bad name,
  • dis integrates,
  • cast slur,
  • de compose,
  • de-composed,
  • de-composing,
  • gave a bad name,
  • casts a slur,
  • gave bad name,
  • brake down,
  • dis integrated,
  • co-oking,
  • de-cay.

  • tarnish (verb)

  • de-fames,
  • de fames,
  • de famed,
  • losing luster,
  • loses shine,
  • lost luster,
  • de fame,
  • de-fame,
  • de-faming,
  • de faming,
  • loses luster,
  • lost shine,
  • losing shine,
  • de-famed.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • denigrate,
  • clod,
  • besoil,
  • smutch.
  •
  • blacken,
  • muck up.
  •
  • black.
  •
  • track.

  • bemire

  • Slushing,
  • Slushed,
  • mucked,
  • mucking.

  • blacken

  • make dark,
  • grow dim,
  • begrimes,
  • grow dark,
  • ink,
  • Inking,
  • inks,
  • grows dim,
  • begrimed,
  • grew dark,
  • ebonize,
  • Inked,
  • Begriming.

  • contaminate

  • Poisoned,
  • radioactivate,
  • befoul,
  • radioactivated,
  • mucked up.

  • farm

  • field.

  • Other relevant words:

  • marbles,
  • besmear,
  • slow down,
  • Littering,
  • discolor,
  • taint,
  • defile,
  • tarnish,
  • marbling,
  • smudge,
  • casts aspersion,
  • foul,
  • smut,
  • muddied,
  • mudsling,
  • break down,
  • pepper,
  • overspreading,
  • besmirch,
  • slowed down,
  • stain,
  • contaminate,
  • pimpled,
  • hang up,
  • Smutting,
  • bobbling,
  • Tarred,
  • blot,
  • scuzz up,
  • lose luster,
  • drag through mud,
  • Tars,
  • smirch,
  • malign,
  • peppers,
  • blotching,
  • tarnishes,
  • Tarring,
  • set back,
  • Bespattering,
  • overspreads,
  • goof up,
  • cast aspersion,
  • badmouth,
  • spotted,
  • bobbles,
  • bollixed,
  • maligned,
  • bobbled,
  • slow up,
  • dulls,
  • Dulling,
  • bollixing,
  • muddies,
  • crud up,
  • splotching,
  • studded,
  • blotched,
  • pollute,
  • Muddying,
  • make foul,
  • marbled,
  • bedaub,
  • Peppering,
  • smear,
  • spatter,
  • cast a slur,
  • mess up,
  • bobble,
  • Trashed,
  • Maculated,
  • Smutted,
  • striping,
  • breaking down,
  • take a swipe at,
  • drag through the mud,
  • lose shine,
  • slowed up,
  • griming,
  • casting aspersion,
  • spot,
  • up set,
  • give a bad name,
  • bollix,
  • bespattered,
  • grimed,
  • take swipe at,
  • overspread,
  • Studding,
  • mire,
  • make filthy,
  • molest,
  • maculate,
  • tar,
  • over spread,
  • bespatter,
  • opprobriate,
  • Peppered,
  • villainize,
  • bemire,
  • splotched,
  • speak ill of,
  • Slurring.

  • spatter

  • Bestrewing,
  • bestrew,
  • bestrewn,
  • specked,
  • polka-dot,
  • bestrewed,
  • polka dot,
  • bestrews,
  • Specking.

  • Other relevant words (noun):

  • foulness,
  • area,
  • crust,
  • gunge,
  • droppings,
  • horrible,
  • premises,
  • carrion,
  • state,
  • blemish,
  • primer coat,
  • space,
  • deep,
  • Sozzle,
  • defame,
  • gravel,
  • defacement,
  • daub,
  • discolouration,
  • mislead,
  • native land,
  • globe,
  • hoe,
  • abominable,
  • tike,
  • lead astray,
  • abase,
  • brand,
  • chimney corner,
  • shite,
  • kern,
  • forecast,
  • putrefaction,
  • tilth,
  • adobe,
  • flue,
  • province,
  • splotch,
  • guano,
  • coat,
  • dregs,
  • betray,
  • laterite,
  • soilure,
  • contaminating,
  • waste material,
  • sow,
  • roof,
  • yokel,
  • leaven,
  • polluted,
  • deformity,
  • father,
  • farming,
  • chalk,
  • get ready,
  • fat,
  • three-mile limit,
  • woodland,
  • section,
  • ordure,
  • darken,
  • cut,
  • plough,
  • Begrease,
  • serf,
  • injure,
  • sphere,
  • hobnail,
  • curmudgeon,
  • cad,
  • crag,
  • dent,
  • obscenity,
  • flaw,
  • corridor,
  • blow upon,
  • rubbish,
  • abuse,
  • scandalize,
  • sewage,
  • cub,
  • landholdings,
  • fruitful,
  • bottomland,
  • sullen,
  • silt,
  • plant,
  • belt,
  • demoralise,
  • asperse,
  • soilage,
  • beat,
  • lay the groundwork,
  • longshoreman,
  • zone,
  • gumbo,
  • harem,
  • vitiate,
  • background,
  • mucky,
  • confines,
  • deface,
  • estate,
  • mud,
  • peasant,
  • calumniate,
  • Bestain,
  • nature,
  • belittle,
  • reproach,
  • depreciate,
  • dropping,
  • mouldy,
  • reservation,
  • circuit,
  • garden,
  • ample,
  • scandal,
  • hardpan,
  • arable land,
  • affluent,
  • chuff,
  • filthiness,
  • orb,
  • benasty,
  • singe,
  • disfigure,
  • alluvion,
  • Sweepings,
  • villein,
  • defect,
  • realm,
  • frightful,
  • mottle,
  • housing,
  • agriculturist,
  • besmutch,
  • moulder,
  • airspace,
  • scat,
  • spray,
  • cover,
  • hinterland,
  • rich,
  • slops,
  • Raff,
  • motherland,
  • stigmatize,
  • doleful,
  • murk,
  • yeoman,
  • lout,
  • Homestall,
  • waste matter,
  • Carle,
  • plowman,
  • dabble,
  • dominion,
  • desecrate,
  • plow,
  • lithosphere,
  • habitat,
  • blur,
  • swain,
  • woodcutter,
  • get dirty,
  • ruin,
  • pollution,
  • stigma,
  • scrap,
  • decay,
  • Ryot,
  • weed,
  • gruff,
  • rub,
  • hearth,
  • disfigurement,
  • manure,
  • commonwealth,
  • hind,
  • mow,
  • waste,
  • slander,
  • mold,
  • farmer,
  • mournful,
  • derogate,
  • smoke,
  • air space,
  • horticulturist,
  • solid ground,
  • rustic,
  • reason,
  • melancholy,
  • mould,
  • Leavings,
  • crud,
  • clodhopper,
  • caliche,
  • acres,
  • feces,
  • gibbet,
  • begin,
  • garbage,
  • underling,
  • offal,
  • quarter,
  • kingdom,
  • cultivate,
  • scorch,
  • rake,
  • bumpkin,
  • poison,
  • put,
  • flat coat,
  • vigneron,
  • Zenana,
  • tinge,
  • inglenook,
  • demean,
  • crocked,
  • countryman,
  • Drabble,
  • seduce,
  • cake,
  • injury,
  • damage,
  • mind,
  • Looby,
  • full,
  • adulterate,
  • fatherland,
  • bole,
  • demoralize,
  • Terra,
  • set in order,
  • smooch,
  • prepare,
  • calamitous,
  • nasty,
  • division,
  • wreck,
  • household,
  • glebe,
  • vicinity,
  • predispose,
  • plowboy,
  • rube,
  • nation,
  • part,
  • shit,
  • husbandman,
  • reap,
  • groundling,
  • slop,
  • go ashore,
  • priming coat,
  • harrow,
  • Cledge,
  • footing,
  • household gods,
  • regolith,
  • foul matter,
  • discoloration,
  • landholding,
  • lubricating oil,
  • ooze,
  • slur,
  • devaluate,
  • dung,
  • clearing,
  • environs,
  • real property,
  • Viticulturist,
  • rape,
  • disguise,
  • blight,
  • putrescence,
  • give a black eye,
  • libel,
  • dibble,
  • Orts,
  • Res Publica,
  • tyke,
  • granger,
  • blotch,
  • faeces,
  • attaint,
  • color,
  • slime,
  • refuse,
  • precincts,
  • slaver,
  • cobweb,
  • anoint,
  • hemisphere,
  • marginal land,
  • primer,
  • Smouch,
  • boor,
  • crack,
  • reprimand,
  • full of water,
  • abundant,
  • rock,
  • deceive,
  • plot of land,
  • speck,
  • ravish,
  • effluent,
  • department,
  • debark,
  • make ready,
  • undercoat,
  • deflower,
  • disapprove,
  • rot,
  • Slubberdegullion,
  • expose,
  • excreta,
  • plentiful,
  • clown,
  • backwoodsman,
  • gloomy,
  • body politic,
  • muckrake,
  • state of nature,
  • call names,
  • neighborhood,
  • fleck,
  • Beslime,
  • traduce,
  • hurt,
  • Distain,
  • Besmoke,
  • awful,
  • roil,
  • china clay,
  • loon,
  • hayseed,
  • landed estate,
  • mark,
  • discredit,
  • red clay,
  • grassland,
  • prolific,
  • milieu,
  • till the soil,
  • subsoil,
  • florist,
  • din land,
  • come ashore,
  • humus,
  • territory,
  • dark ages,
  • unclean,
  • alluvium,
  • neglect,
  • cast aspersions on,
  • trash,
  • mar,
  • wipe,
  • fearful,
  • dishonour,
  • porcelain clay,
  • heartland,
  • Defigure,
  • place,
  • Backset,
  • Sullage,
  • people,
  • turd,
  • limit,
  • demesne,
  • topsoil,
  • debauch,
  • dig,
  • offshore rights,
  • plaster,
  • poop,
  • put in order,
  • vicinage,
  • violate,
  • vulgarism,
  • censure,
  • pale,
  • priming,
  • speckle,
  • bog-trotter,
  • pillory,
  • twelve-mile limit,
  • destroy,
  • compartment,
  • crap,
  • junk,
  • Draggle,
  • Slubber,
  • gaffer,
  • dapple,
  • GAUM,
  • villain,
  • terra incognita,
  • vilify,
  • nastiness,
  • cultivator,
  • clunch,
  • district,
  • territorial dominion,
  • circle,
  • atrocious,
  • malicious gossip,
  • throw mud at,
  • grit,
  • seraglio,
  • revile,
  • sow the seed,
  • opulent,
  • damn,
  • impure,
  • lunkhead,
  • skank,
  • fellah,
  • Daggle,
  • basis,
  • force,
  • sludge,
  • cruel,
  • disparage,
  • dishonor,
  • rough,
  • Sting ray,
  • purlieus,
  • gamin,
  • churl,
  • parts,
  • kaolin,
  • ravage,
  • sewerage,
  • excrement,
  • marl,
  • impair,
  • domain,
  • sear,
  • gardener,
  • clot,
  • distort,
  • fault,
  • harm,
  • salient,
  • till,
  • imperfection,
  • arrange,
  • delve,
  • splash,
  • dross,
  • productive,
  • discolour,
  • despoil,
  • continental shelf,
  • doo-doo,
  • real estate,
  • mess-up,
  • Agricultor.

How to use «Soil» in context?

Paraphrases for Soil:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    Soils.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Adjective
    soil-borne.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    mud, subsoil.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    sol, terrain, Areas, places, pays, locations.
  • Noun, plural
    coverings.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    dirt, pavement, sol, subsurface, terrain, Soli, Sous, ushers.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    ground.
  • Proper noun, singular
    ground.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    clay, erosion, ground.
  • Verb, base form
    ground.

Homophones for Soil:

• sequela, shallu, sage willow, scheol, sell, squill, SL, skull, shackle, swallow hole, secale, slay, slow, shill, sicily, sea kale, sexual, slue, shale oil, squally, seoul, sial, segal, shekel, squeal, squall, sisal, sill, shoal, sally, sea eagle, school, sle, shallow, squiggly, socle, slaw, Sea Squill, soul, sea coal, sea swallow, saucily, shelley, silly, salol, sex cell, sizzle, seel, Sei Whale, swahili, shockley, sequella, sula, shoaly, social, showily, scowl, salai, sego lily, salaah, suckle, seal oil, sea lily, sole, sly, sol, shell, skilly, seashell, sickle, sloe, sewellel, salah, sickly, saale, seal, solo, sick call, sagaciously, skysail, sky glow, shyly, swill, seseli, sallow, shigella, sequel, slowly, shawwal, shiloh, saul, solely, scaley, slyly, sail, seawall, silo, seagull, swizzle, sale, scilla, swell, shale, salal, sessile, sea gull, scheele, sea holly, szell, shawl, sully, sagely, sialia, skill, Swale, sulla, swallow, slew, saxicola, sicilia, solea, squilla, saccule, seckel, scull, scylla, shillalah, Sea Cole, squiggle, scale, scaly.

Table Of Contents:

• Soil as a Noun
• Definitions of «Soil» as a noun
• Synonyms of «Soil» as a noun (21 Words)
• Usage Examples of «Soil» as a noun
• Soil as a Verb
• Definitions of «Soil» as a verb
• Synonyms of «Soil» as a verb (5 Words)
• Usage Examples of «Soil» as a verb
• Associations of «Soil» (30 Words)