soiled
UK: sɔɪld | US: sɔɪld
adj. made dirty or stained
vt. past tense and past participle of soil (to make dirty)
The word soil originates from Old French soillier ("to dirty"), which likely derived from Latin solium ("seat" or "throne"), metaphorically extended to mean "ground" or "dirt." The suffix -ed marks the past tense or participle form, turning the verb soil into an adjective describing something that has been dirtied. The evolution reflects a shift from a physical object (ground) to an action (making dirty) and finally to a state (dirtied).
The child's clothes were soiled after playing in the mud.
She refused to wear the soiled dress to the party.
The carpet was soiled with coffee stains.
He quickly changed his soiled gloves during the surgery.
The riverbank was soiled by industrial waste.