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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To smear or soil with or as if with dirt.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make grimy; cover or impress as with dirt or grime.
  • Synonyms Tarnish, etc. See soil.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make something dirty; to soil

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make soiled, filthy, or dirty

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