Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make dirty; soil. See Synonyms at contaminate.
- v. To cast aspersions upon; speak badly of.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make foul; cover with filth; soil; tarnish.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make foul; to soil.
- v. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
WordNet 3.0
- v. spot, stain, or pollute
Examples
“The teabagger trolls that befoul this blog are Klansmen.”
“He experienced the gall of bitter suffering under a brutal prison regime but did not let spiritual bitterness befoul his soul.”
The Wall Street Journal: Five Best: Still Free to Think: Prison Writing
“Jwest will be the first to throw a hissy fit and befoul his panties after his favorite Starbucks raises their prices 200%.”
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee.
“Katrina van den Heuvel will make Grover Norquist befoul his panties.”
“For a nation to endorse torture as an element of policy and to employ it just once is to befoul it morally ever bit as much as if it had tortured millions.”
“Men who work in a macho sports world, where to yield a step means intolerable humiliation, willingly befoul their own legacy, and then surrender it to long-term tarnish.”
“What stems and leaves befoul his work he gathers in a canopy, avoiding both sun and rain.”
“Phineas was imprisoned on an island with a giant feast laid before him that he could never eat because the Harpies would steal food from his hands, and befoul the rest with their droppings.”
The Huffington Post: Hurricane Katrina and the Lost Prisoners of New Orleans
“Indeed, the crude emanating from BP's well threatens to befoul a number of such alliances that have formed between energy conglomerates and environmental non-profits.”
The Washington Post: Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP
“The crude emanating from BP's well threatens to befoul a number of alliances between energy conglomerates and environmental nonprofits.”
The Washington Post: Nature Conservancy faces potential backlash from ties with BP
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘befoul’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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EN - rare verbs
fornicate, enfranchise, tweet, natter, fetter, devil, cork, bunker, canoe, backstroke, carom, queer and 52 more...
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Belistful
Tubey or not tubey.
belittle, bedazzle, besiege, besmirch, bespeckle, beget, bemoan, befuddle, befriend, become, besot, becloud and 596 more...
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Studying
parry, palliate, cadge, dissemble, bathos, arrogate, dilatory, ipso facto, ontogeny, recondite, specious, miasma and 90 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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Harry potter
dingy, dangling, linger, manacle, quill, parchment, bogy, mutter, befoul, dab, squint, bated and 9 more...
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More words
disembark, clumsy, bumble, supersede, befoul, bivouac, dutiful, corsair, aggravation, assortment, discernible, spasmodically and 1 more...
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Belist
Be- verbs (or verbals).
Words bewet through becalm were gratefully cribbed from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be-bewitch, bedeck, bedaub, become, bewilder, beknight, bereave, believe, behead, besiege, bespeak, befriend and 53 more...
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Schoolyard Suicide
See Dick run; see Dick cower, see Dick flinch, see Dick yowl; see Dick slink, see Dick lick, see Dick swell; see Dick slur "nudding" to nosy quidnuncs.
pejorative, nomenclature, deign, comestible, epicene, tarry, sobriquet, comport, querulous, inveigle, rococo, sotto voce and 69 more...
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