soil
/sɔɪl/ verbo C2En español: enlodar, enlodazar, embarrar, enfangar
- To make dirty.
- To become dirty or soiled. · Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.
- To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
- To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed. · The child was so scared she soiled herself.
- To make invalid, to ruin.
- To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
He/she/it soils · Pasado soiled · Participio pasado soiled · Forma en -ing soiling
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- soil
- He/she/it
- soils
- Pasado
- soiled
- Participio pasado
- soiled
- Forma en -ing
- soiling
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Few have passed through this revolutionary period, in the midst of which we were born, without some stain of infamy or blood to soil the uniform of the soldier, or the gown of the magistrate.
The blackish soil is kept forever soft by the incessant drift of spray, and a bird would leave its tread upon it.
A few yards from the end the soil was all ploughed up into a patch of mud, and the branches and ferns which fringed the chasm were torn and bedraggled.
If they took him to the cemetery and laid him in a grave, he would allow himself to be covered with earth, and then, as it was night, the grave-diggers could scarcely have turned their backs before he would have worked his way through the yielding soil and escaped.
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