Definitions for soil

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soil soil

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IPA: /sɔɪl/

Soil is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in soil (ilos).

Definitions for soil

noun

1. the portion of the earth's surface consisting of disintegrated rock and humus.
2. a particular kind of earth:
3. the ground as producing vegetation or as cultivated for its crops:
4. a country, land, or region:
5. the ground or earth:
6. any place or condition providing the opportunity for growth or development:
7. the act or fact of soiling.
8. the state of being soiled.
9. a spot, mark, or stain.
10. dirty or foul matter; filth; sewage.
11. ordure; manure.

verb (used with object)

1. to make unclean, dirty, or filthy, especially on the surface:
2. to smirch, smudge, or stain:
3. to sully or tarnish, as with disgrace; defile morally:
4. to feed (confined cattle, horses, etc.) freshly cut green fodder for roughage.

verb (used without object)

1. to become soiled:

Origin of soil

1300-50; Middle English soile Anglo-French soyl Latin solium seat, confused with solum ground

Examples for soil

In an interview with The Daily Beast in September, Paul said he was against the idea of U.S. forces on Middle East soil.

Marx forecast that the profit motive would lead to overworking and exhausting the fertility of our soil and other natural systems.

When our brethren departed, we could not tear our aged roots out of the soil.

The people have no right to the soil in the eyes of these political economists.

The soil is hard, and the crop after the expenditure of much toil is often very scanty.

Under the new requirements, simply being born on U.S. soil would no longer be enough.

I've known the answer ever since I first turned the soil of this farm.

Could you bring me some soil from the garden, that I may judge?

The ground was fertile, with alluvial, or unconsolidated, soil.

The others are difficult to identify, since they reacted with other oxygen-bearing molecules in the soil.