Befilth

Quick meaning: Befilth is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To cover with filth; make filthy; begrime.

Example Sentences

How people, with any pretence to decency or cleanliness, can, for a day, sit voiceless and patient and see these brutes destroy and befilth everything, public and private, is difficult to believe.

Shall he be crest-fall'n, if some looser brain, In flux of wit uncivilly befilth His slight composures? Shall his bosom faint, If drunken Censure belch out sour breath From Hatred's surfeit on his labour's front? Nay, say some half a dozen rancorous [...]

Word Forms

• befilths
• befilthing
• befilthed

Synonyms for befilth

Depending on context, synonyms include bedirty, befoul, foul, assoil, beclart, bedaub.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include filthen, befile, filthify, dirt, befoul, filthy.

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