Definition of "antifouling" []

• Counteracting or preventing the building up of deposits on underwater surfaces, such as the undersides of boats: antifouling paint. (adjective)

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• "Under the bill, use of toxic tin-based antifouling paints would be prohibited."
• "A variety of chemicals including DDT and DDE (an organochlorine pesticide and its breakdown product), tributyltin (used in the past as a marine antifouling agent), and vinclozolin (a fungicide that in the past was used on many fruits, vegetables and ornamentals) have been found to disrupt the endocrine systems of animals in laboratory studies."
• "Next she greesed the groove of her keel, warthes and wears and mole and itcher, with antifouling butter-scatch and turfentide and serpenthyme and with leafmould she ushered round prunella isles and eslats dun, quincecunct, allover her little mary."