fouler

From foul +‎ -er.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊl.ə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊl.ɚ/

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• Homophone: fowler

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fouler (plural foulers)

1. One who fouls.
   • 2015, Saleem Mustafa, Rossita Shapawi, Aquaculture Ecosystems: Adaptability and Sustainability, page 119:

     For example, several species of hydroids and bryozoans are important foulers of salmon cages in Australia (Hodson et al., 2000) and Norway (Guenther et al., 2010).

fouler

1. comparative form of foul: more foul

• refoul

From Middle French fouller (“to trample, mill, fordo, mistreat”), from Old French foler (“to crush, act wickedly”), from Vulgar Latin *fullāre (“to trample, to full”), from Latin fullō (“fuller”). More at full.

• IPA^(key): /fu.le/

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• Rhymes: -e
• Homophones: foulai, foulé, foulée, foulées, foulés, foulez

fouler

1. (transitive) to stamp, to impress, to dent; to mill
2. (transitive) to walk on, to tread, to trample
3. (transitive) to oppress, to mistreat

   fouler aux pieds ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

4. (transitive) to injure by knocking, bumping or dinting
5. (reflexive) to sprain

   Je me suis foulé la cheville en jouant au rugby

   I sprained my ankle playing rugby.

6. (pronominal, chiefly in the negative, colloquial) to wear oneself out, to overdo it

   ne pas se fouler ― not to overdo it

• “fouler”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.