soil

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n

1. ground, earth, Archaic. glebe, turf, marl, loam, humus; clay, dirt, dust.

2. country, land, region; property, premises.

II

v

1. dirty, stain, spot, maculate, smudge, muddy, sully; splash, spatter, Inf. slop up, Inf. foul up; bedraggle, draggle, begrime, besmear, smear, smirch, besmirch; foul, befoul; blacken, tarnish.

2. defile, pollute, taint, poison; smear, blot, blur; contaminate, make impure; sully, dishonor, disgrace, asperse; deprecate, defame, denigrate.

n

3. dirt, mud, mire, muck, sludge, slush, sediment, silt; filth, refuse, trash, garbage, slop; sewage, dregs, lees, slime; decay, rot, offal, foul matter.

4. manure, fertilizer; excrement, waste matter, waste, feculence, dung, muck, ordure, guano, animal droppings, coprolites, coproliths.