soil
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Is soil a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) A mixture of mineral particles and organic material, used to support plant growth.Examples: "We bought a bag of soil for the houseplants."uncountable
2. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.uncountable
3. (uncountable) The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To make dirty.Examples: "[…]Bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know, / Which leaves us naked thus, of Honour void, / Of innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, / Our wonted Ornaments now ſoild and ſtaind, / And in our Faces evident the ſignes / Of foul concupiſcence ; whence eveil ſtore ; / Even ſhame, the laſt of evils ; of the firſt / Be ſure then."Synonyms: smirch, besmirch, dirtytransitive
2. (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.Examples: "Light colours soil sooner than dark ones."intransitive
3. (transitive, figurative) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.Examples: "[…]They clip vs drunkards, and with Swiniſh phraſe / Soyle our addition, and indeede it takes / From our atchieuements, though perform’d at height / The pith and marrow of our attribute[…]"figurativelytransitive
4. (reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.Examples: "The child was so scared she soiled herself."reflexive
noun (English)
1. (uncountable, euphemistic) Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.Synonyms: dirteuphemisticuncountable
2. (countable, medicine) A bag containing soiled items.countable
Definition source: Wiktionary