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did his best to forward her career. 7 dispatch or despatch,
send, ship, deliver, transmit, express, post, mail, consign,
remit; send on: The shipment will be forwarded as soon as
payment is received. The post office will forward mail to my
new address. 8 speed (up), accelerate, advance, hasten,
expedite, hurry, quicken, step up: This mixture is said to
forward the flowering of plants.
foster v. 1 promote, encourage, stimulate, further, forward, advance,
cultivate, nurture, nourish, support, back, assist, help, aid,
succour, patronize: Cutting back these offshoots fosters growth
of the main stem. Representatives have fostered acceptance of
our products throughout Europe. 2 bring up, rear, raise, take
care of, maintain, care for: The Cartwrights have fostered
eight orphans in their home.
foul adj. 1 offensive, loathsome, disgusting, obnoxious, revolting,
repulsive, repellent, repugnant, sickening, nauseous,
nauseating, nasty, beastly, Archaic fulsome: The bartender
makes a foul concoction he swears will cure a hangover. 2
filthy, unclean, nasty, polluted, putrid, putrescent,
putrefactive or putrefacient, defiled, soiled, spoiled, rotten,
decayed, decomposed, rancid, soured, turned, tainted, mouldy,
impure, adulterated, contaminated, stale, bad, Brit off: The
hamburger place was closed when public health inspectors found
foul food in the freezer. 3 smelly, stinking, noisome, fetid or
foetid, rank, evil-smelling, foul-smelling, malodorous, musty,
mephitic, graveolent: A foul odour emanated from the cabinet.
4 wicked, vile, bad, base, abominable, low, sordid, iniquitous,
evil, flagitious, atrocious, monstrous, nefarious, sinful,
immoral, amoral, vicious, villainous, scandalous, infamous,
dishonourable, shameful, disgraceful, ignominious; detestable:
They were finally brought to justice for their foul deeds. 5
dirty, obscene, filthy, profane, scatological, gross, smutty,
foul-mouthed, blue, licentious, salacious, lewd, indecent,
improper, coarse, uncouth, vulgar, rude, scurrilous, rough,
indelicate, immodest, risqu‚, off colour, suggestive, bawdy,
ribald, Rabelaisian, Fescennine, US raw, Slang raunchy: My
mother forbids my reading books containing foul language. 6
abusive, offensive, affronting, insulting, disparaging,
maligning, thersitical, calumnious or calumniatory, aspersive,
slanderous, defamatory, libellous, denigrating, derogatory,
deprecatory or deprecative, depreciatory or depreciative,