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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
  • The nation's top health advisor spent time with his grandchildren on Mother's Day in a contaminated Maryland creek, according to photos shared on his social media.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 13 May 2025
  • Mostly encountered in developing countries with poor water sanitation, the shape-shifting amoeba typically enters a person's colon after ingesting contaminated food or water.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 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
  • According to the company, 99.5% of the tainted butter was recovered before reaching consumers.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • One new initiative the researchers have undertaken is to focus on items in the collection with histories that include some contact with tainted dealers.
    Graham Bowley, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • 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
  • 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
Adjective
  • What was considered holy at one time was considered impure in other epochs.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer, Harpers Magazine, 26 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 23 May. 2025.

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