Definition:
- (v. t.) To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.
- (n.) The upper stratum of the earth; the mold, or that compound substance which furnishes nutriment to plants, or which is particularly adapted to support and nourish them.
- (n.) Land; country.
- (n.) Dung; faeces; compost; manure; as, night soil.
- (v. t.) To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
- (n.) A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
- (n.) To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust.
- (n.) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- (v. i.) To become soiled; as, light colors soil sooner than dark ones.
- (n.) That which soils or pollutes; a soiled place; spot; stain.
Compare soil with other words:
soil vs. yield
foundation vs. soil
soal vs. soil
soil vs. soily
soil vs. sowl
soil vs. soli
coil vs. soil
moil vs. soil
soil vs. toil
roil vs. soil
boil vs. soil
foil vs. soil
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garden vs. soil
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fill vs. soil
geoscopy vs. soil
begrease vs. soil
knawel vs. soil
bemoil vs. soil
soil vs. vinquish
soil vs. underdrain
bethumb vs. soil
slickens vs. soil
soil vs. understratum
bespit vs. soil
slabber vs. soil
interflow vs. soil
soil vs. undersoil
histosol vs. soil
humin vs. soil
beray vs. soil
salination vs. soil
slud vs. soil
bespawl vs. soil
soil vs. terraceous
nitrifying vs. soil
rock vs. soil
foul vs. soil
gravel vs. soil
soil vs. subsoil
soil vs. spoil
rich vs. soil
compost vs. soil
soil vs. waste
gut vs. soil
ranker vs. soil
heathland vs. soil
ped vs. soil
mineralization vs. soil
smutch vs. soil
moorland vs. soil
smeary vs. soil
grouser vs. soil
bemire vs. soil
begrime vs. soil
cultivator vs. soil
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hardpan vs. soil
arenaceous vs. soil
decalcification vs. soil
seepage vs. soil
aerator vs. soil
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earthy vs. soil
bewray vs. soil
lysimeter vs. soil
laterite vs. soil
agronomy vs. soil
harrow vs. soil
saur vs. soil
soil vs. truffle
enrich vs. soil
alluvial vs. soil
avulsion vs. soil
agronomics vs. soil
serpentine vs. soil
dressing vs. soil
heath vs. soil
soil vs. sully
soil vs. tarnish
dib vs. soil
bedaub vs. soil
soil vs. tormentor
smudge vs. soil
hydrology vs. soil
blacken vs. soil
land vs. soil
horizon vs. soil
lorry vs. soil
mold vs. soil
ground vs. soil
mud vs. soil
befoul vs. soil
loam vs. soil
humus vs. soil
gumbo vs. soil
cultivate vs. soil
glebe vs. soil
soil vs. till
root vs. soil
profit vs. soil
manure vs. soil
dust vs. soil
mulch vs. soil
smirch vs. soil
dirty vs. soil
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alluvium vs. soil
soil vs. topsoil
soil vs. soilless
earth vs. soil
dirt vs. soil
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pollute vs. soil
organic vs. soil
sand vs. soil
plant vs. soil
ablaqueate vs. soil
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