The difference between Smirch and Soil
When used as nouns, smirch means dirt, or a stain, whereas soil means a mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
When used as verbs, smirch means to dirty, whereas soil means to make dirty.
check bellow for the other definitions of Smirch and Soil
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Smirch as a noun:
Dirt, or a stain.
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Smirch as a noun (figurative):
A stain on somebody's reputation.
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Smirch as a verb (transitive):
To dirty; to make dirty.
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Smirch as a verb (transitive, figurative):
To harm the reputation of; to smear or slander.
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Smirch as a noun:
A chirp of radiation power from an astronomical body that has a smeared appearance on its plot in the time-frequency plane (usually associated with massive bodies orbiting supermassive black holes)
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Soil as a noun (uncountable):
A mixture of sand and organic material, used to support plant growth.
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Soil as a noun (uncountable):
The unconsolidated mineral or organic material on the immediate surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.
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Soil as a noun (uncountable):
The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that has been subjected to and shows effects of genetic and environmental factors of: climate (including water and temperature effects), and macro- and microorganisms, conditioned by relief, acting on parent material over a period of time. A product-soil differs from the material from which it is derived in many physical, chemical, biological, and morphological properties and characteristics.
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Soil as a noun:
Country or territory.
Examples:
"The refugees returned to their native soil."
"Kenyan soil"
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Soil as a noun:
That which soils or pollutes; a stain.
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Soil as a noun:
A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer.
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Soil as a noun:
Dung; compost; manure.
Examples:
"night soil"
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Soil as a verb (transitive):
To make dirty.
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Soil as a verb (intransitive):
To become dirty or soiled.
Examples:
"Light colours soil sooner than dark ones."
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Soil as a verb (transitive, figurative):
To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
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Soil as a verb (reflexive):
To dirty one's clothing by accidentally defecating while clothed.
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Soil as a verb:
To make invalid, to ruin.
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Soil as a verb:
To enrich with soil or muck; to manure.
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Soil as a noun (uncountable, euphemistic):
Faeces or urine etc. when found on clothes.
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Soil as a noun (countable, medicine):
A bag containing soiled items.
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Soil as a noun:
A wet or marshy place in which a boar or other such game seeks refuge when hunted.
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Soil as a verb:
To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an enclosure, with fresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them out to pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food.
Examples:
"to soil a horse"