1. To make dirty, particularly on the surface. 2. To disgrace; tarnish: a reputation soiled by scandal.3. To corrupt; defile. 4. To dirty with excrement.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To become dirty, stained, or tarnished.
NOUN:
1a. The state of being soiled. b. A stain. 2. Filth, sewage, or refuse. 3. Manure, especially human excrement, used as fertilizer.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English soilen, from Old French souiller, from Vulgar Latin *suculre (from Late Latin suculus, diminutive of Latin ss, pig; see s- in Appendix I) or from souil, pigsty, wallow (from Latin solium, seat; see soil1).
soil
re (from Late Latin suculus, diminutive of Latin s
s, pig; see s
