Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Foul \Foul\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fouled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Fouling}.]
1. To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as,
to foul the face or hands with mire.
2. (Mil.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in
the process of firing.
3. To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its
sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles.
4. To entangle, so as to impede motion; as, to foul a rope or
cable in paying it out; to come into collision with; as,
one boat fouled the other in a race.
Source : WordNet®
fouled
adj 1: made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot";
"breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot"
[syn: {befouled}]
2: especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a
foul anchor" [syn: {afoul(ip)}, {foul}]