English Dictionary

soil

/sɔɪl/

verb

(transitive) To make dirty. / (intransitive) To become dirty or soiled. / (transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

The children soil their clothes while playing in the mud.

意味（1）

(transitive) To make dirty.

[…]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.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To become dirty or soiled.

Light colours soil sooner than dark ones.

意味（3）

(transitive, figuratively) To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

[…]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[…]

意味（4）

(reflexive) To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.

The child was so scared she soiled herself.

意味（5）

To make invalid, to ruin.

意味（6）

To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.

For to be kind to the former is traffic ; and in these times men present, just as they soil their ground, not that they love the dirt, but that they expect a crop : and for the latter, the politician well approves of the Indian’s religion, in worshiping the devil, that he may do him no hurt ; how much soever he hates him, and is hated by him.