foul
弄脏,犯规,弄脏了,弄虚作假
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Definitions
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foul·er, foul·est.
- : grossly offensive to the senses; disgustingly loathsome; noisome: a foul smell.
- : containing or characterized by offensive or noisome matter: foul air; foul stagnant water.
- : filthy or dirty, as places, receptacles, clothes, etc.
- : muddy, as a road.
- : clogged or obstructed with foreign matter: a foul gas jet.
- : unfavorable or stormy: foul weather.
- : contrary, violent, or unfavorable, as the wind.
- : grossly offensive in a moral sense.
- : abominable, wicked, or vile, as deeds, crime, slander, etc.
- : scurrilous, profane, or obscene; offensive: foul language.
- : contrary to the rules or established usages, as of a sport or game; unfair: a foul blow.
- : Baseball. pertaining to a foul ball or a foul line.
- : limited in freedom of movement by obstruction, entanglement, etc.: a foul anchor.
- : abounding in errors or in marks of correction, as a printer's proof, manuscript, or the like.
- : Nautical. encrusted and impeded with barnacles, seaweed, etc. involving inconveniences and dangers, as of colliding with vessels or other objects when swinging with the tide. affording a poor hold for an anchor.
- : North England and Scot.. not fair; ugly or unattractive.
- : Obsolete. disfigured.
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- : in a foul manner; vilely; unfairly.
- : Baseball. into foul territory; so as to be foul: It looked like a homer when he hit it, but it went foul.
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- : something that is foul.
- : a collision or entanglement: a foul between two racing sculls.
- : a violation of the rules of a sport or game: The referee called it a foul.
- : Baseball. foul ball.
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- : to make foul; defile; soil.
- : to clog or obstruct, as a chimney or the bore of a gun.
- : to collide with.
- : to cause to become entangled or caught, as a rope.
- : to defile; dishonor; disgrace: His reputation had been fouled by unfounded accusations.
- : Nautical. to cling to so as to encumber.
- : Baseball. to hit foul: He fouled off two curves before being struck out on a fastball.
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- : to become foul.
- : Nautical. to come into collision, as two boats.
- : to become entangled or clogged: The rope fouled.
- : Sports. to make a foul play; give a foul blow.
- : Baseball. to hit a foul ball.
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- : foul out, Baseball.to be put out by hitting a foul ball caught on the fly by a player on the opposing team.Basketball.to be expelled from a game for having committed more fouls than is allowed.
- : foul up, Informal. to cause confusion or disorder; bungle; spoil.
Phrases
- foul one's nest
- foul play
- foul up
- run afoul of
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Entering through a window, Mono emerges into a foul kitchen where insects buzz over towering dirty dishes.
Jamorko Pickett posted 12 points, eight rebounds and three assists, and Chudier Bile also scored 12 points before fouling out.
We all have to go in and rebound and take an offensive foul.
The 22-year-old forward didn’t shoot well and flubbed fouling Heat center Bam Adebayo when the big man caught the ball on an inbounds pass during the last play of the game with the Washington Wizards up three.
Justyn Mutts added 17 points, and Hunter Cattoor scored 12 before fouling out.
Father Joel Román Salazar died in a car crash in 2013; his death was ruled an accident, but the suspicion of foul play persists.
Malcolm Tucker, a foul-mouthed political advisor, was the role that turned Capaldi into a household name in Britain.
Foul-mouthed chauvinist who flirted with chicks in a hot tub or celebrity-friendly sociopolitical satirist?
Playing the foul-mouthed bad character will become as predictable and counter-intuitive as a playing a thousand Joeys.
Miller took particular exception to a post in which Kelley had worried she might fall victim to foul play.
Two years later this promising recruit, having fallen foul of the military authorities, had to leave the service under a cloud.
But I have some more foul way to trot through still, in your Epistles and Satyrs, &c.
After he was securely bound he was forced to stand while the two, with foul epithets, hung the body of the corporal over the road.
Without warning, we found ourselves foul of a picket-line, and the vague forms of grazing horses loomed close by.
But it was strongly rumoured that there had been foul play, peculation, even forgery.