soilage

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈsɔɪlɪd͡ʒ/

Definition of soilage

4 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.
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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Forage cut and fed to animals while still fresh.
  2. (uncountable)Act, process, or instance of soiling.
    “The fear of defilement, violation of self and reification, is revealed by the way the respondents described the burglaries in which there was neither breakage, soilage, or, sometimes, any disorder. In such cases, burglary is called work and is said tot have been "cleanly done"[.]”
    “The majority of military surgeons treating acute injuries of the colon tended to exteriorize the wound as an artificial anus to prevent further soilage of the peritoneal cavity.”
    “Collections need to be drained, the lung decorticated, and ongoing soilage of the chest controlled. In some cases, percutaneous drains are adequate to obtain source control. In more significant leaks, operative assessment may be required […]”
    “Anal soilage or leakage (usually not solid stool incontinence) is a manifestation noted frequently by both the patient and the examining physician.”
    “Minor incontinence (fecal soilage) includes incontinence to flatus and occasional seepage of liquid stool.”
  3. (uncountable)State or condition of being soiled.
    “Photograph showing soilage (discoloration) of cotton drill […]”
  4. (obsolete, uncountable)Soil.
    “[…] which was pulled down in the year 1549. The bones of the dead, couched u in a Charnel under the Chappel were conveyed from thence to Finsbury Field […] and there laid on a Moorish Ground, in short space after raised by Soilage of the City, upon them to bear Three Wind Mills. The Chappel and Charnel were converted into Dwelling houses, Warehouses, and Sheds for Stationers, […]”

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Etymology

From soil (“to feed animals fresh-cut forage”) + -age.

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