transitive. To soil, sully.

transitive. To stain; to soil; to colour; to tinge. Frequently in passive with with. Also in figurative contexts. Obsolete.

To make foul or dirty, esp. on the surface; to begrime, stain, tarnish. Also spec., of a child or patient: to make foul by defecation (esp. when…

transitive. To soil, stain, sully; also figurative.

transitive. To besully, befoul.

transitive. To soil, stain, blacken, smirch; to mark with dirty stains or smears.

To coat or cover with adhering dirt; to soil, bedaub. Also figurative.

transitive. Of things: to make dirty, soil, sully, or discolour (something) by contact or touch.

transitive. To bespatter; to soil or stain.

transitive. To soil, sully, defile.

transitive. To cover with dirt or grime; to stain, discolour.

transitive. To soil all over, pollute, defile. literal and figurative.

transitive. Scottish. To soil with or bog down in mud or filth. Chiefly in passive. Obsolete.

transitive (usually in passive). To wet, moisten; to soil, bedaub (British regional in later use); to transform into a soft mass. Obsolete.

transitive. To mark with some black or dirty substance; to blacken, smudge.

transitive. To befoul, soil.

transitive. To pollute, defile; to soil, stain, tarnish. in material sense. Now rare or poetic.

Bad form for coinquinate, v.

Of persons (or animals): to stain, smear, or befoul (the face, person, etc.) with or by means of something dirty or having staining properties. Also…

transitive. To blacken, make dirty, smut, smudge. Also in figurative context.

to sully all over.

transitive. To sully or soil badly.

intransitive. To do casual work in a printing-house where one is not regularly employed (see quots.). †Also const. on (a firm).

To soil, discolour, as with smoke, soot, or mud; also figurative to sully, dim the lustre of.

transitive. To besmirch.

transitive. To soil, dirty, esp. with fish slime.

transitive. To make dirty, to soil.