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fouled

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verb

past tense of foul
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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fouled
Adjective
  • It’s spread when chickens come into contact with infected birds or through contaminated water, feed and equipment.
    Pete & Gerry's Contributor, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • For decades there has been concern that CWD could move into human populations through the ingestion of contaminated meat.
    Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • That number includes children, who represent 16 percent of those poisoned and 27 percent of all fatalities.
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2025
  • And guess what, hospitals are seeing cases of vitamin A toxicity — of kids poisoned by being fed too many vitamins instead of being vaccinated.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The second phase was meant to pave the way to an end to the war, although the truce disintegrated when Israeli forces resumed airstrikes on Gaza.
    Chantal Da Silva, NBC news, 27 Mar. 2025
  • The premier Copley Cup — which for decades drew the nation’s elite men’s varsity eights for an early-season east/west showdown – has disintegrated into an alumni race.
    Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In the street in front of his house, Cooper — the homeowner with the tainted water — met Wilson studying a flare through her camera.
    Saul Elbein, The Hill, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The man widely called the true winner of Venezuela’s tainted presidential election said on Tuesday that his son-in-law had been kidnapped by hooded men in Caracas, the capital.
    Genevieve Glatsky, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • One manager, in particular, repeatedly degraded the workers, calling them racial slurs and making comments about their work ethic, the lawsuit said.
    Jennifer Rodriguez, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2025
  • If global warming is uncontrolled, 90% of all coral reefs in the world will be functionally degraded by 2050.
    Ian Dexter Palmer, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • In any case, playing Bach on a concert grand is an inherently impure act; Bach knew of no such instrument.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
  • In any case, playing Bach on a concert grand is an inherently impure act; Bach knew of no such instrument.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2025
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“Fouled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fouled. Accessed 28 Apr. 2025.

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