soil
soil.01 - to make dirty
SOIL-V NOTES: Based on survey of sentences in WSJ. Member of VNcls fill-9.8. (from soil.01-v)SOILING-N NOTES: soil.01 (from soiling.01-n)
Aliases:
soil (v.)
soiling (n.)
soiling (n.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: causer
ARG1-GOL: entity soiled
ARG1-GOL: entity soiled
transitive
The March 24 oil spillARG0
soiledrel
hundreds of miles of shoreline along Alaska 's southern coastARG1
and wreaked havoc with wildlife and the fishing industry .Arg0,1
Even if he had given up the names of only five or ten of his peers ,
hisARG0
soilingrel
of the reputations of the innocentARG1
was inexcusable .