Befoul

Quick meaning: Befoul is a verb meaning (literally) To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

Meaning

(literally) To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

More Meanings

1. To stain or mar (e.g., with infamy or disgrace).
2. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

Example Sentences

There she sits before you, gentlemen, betrayed by her husband, befouled by every idle tongue that wags […]

Only the four walls of his home still stood, blackened and smoking with the sluggish, stinking smoke that befouled the sea-wind.

“[…] you combine a vulgar atheism and an iconoclastic desire to befoul the sacred ideas of the average man or woman, collectively scorned as the bourgeoisie——”

For three days Pete bore himself according to his wont, thinking to silence the evil tongues of the little world about him, and keep sweet and alive the dear name which they were waiting to befoul and destroy.

Word Forms

• befouls
• befouling
• befouled

Synonyms for befoul

Depending on context, synonyms include befile, befilth, foul, assoil, beclart, bedaub.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include defile, foul, maculate, befile, dirt, beray.

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