FOULING Synonyms

• offensive or even (of persons) malicious

• exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

• characterized by obscenity

• disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter

• especially of a ship's lines etc

• spot, stain, or pollute

• a deception for profit to yourself

• not faithful to a spouse or lover

• violating accepted standards or rules

• a coil of low resistance and high inductance used in electrical circuits to pass direct current and attenuate alternating current

• a valve that controls the flow of air into the carburetor of a gasoline engine

• breathe with great difficulty, as when experiencing a strong emotion

• be too tight; rub or press

• wring the neck of

• constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing

• struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake

• fail to perform adequately due to tension or agitation

• check or slow down the action or effect of

• become or cause to become obstructed

• impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of

• become stultified, suppressed, or stifled

• suppress the development, creativity, or imagination of

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• reduce the air supply

• cause to retch or choke

• footwear usually with wooden soles

• any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction

• a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps

• become or cause to become obstructed

• dance a clog dance

• impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden

• impede with a clog or as if with a clog

• coalesce or unite in a mass

• fill to excess so that function is impaired

• become or cause to become obstructed

• make impure

• make radioactive by adding radioactive material

• characterized by obscenity

• a narrow pass (especially one between mountains)

• place under suspicion or cast doubt upon

• make dirty or spotty, as by exposure to air; also used metaphorically

• spot, stain, or pollute

• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

• not pleasing in odor or taste

• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

• offensively malodorous

• offensively malodorous

• offensively malodorous

• made dirty or foul

• especially of a ship's lines etc

• offensively malodorous

• (of jazz) having the soulful feeling of early blues

• stylish and modern in an unconventional way

• in a state of cowardly fright

• offensively malodorous