befoul
verb (used with object)
to make dirty or filthy; soil; defile; sully.
befouls
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present tense formof befoul (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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And when drilling goes bad, it befouls the environment and the greater economy.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
For all the burlesque that befouls our politics, the quadrennial ritual on January 20 is when we are humbled by the reminder of our own solemn charge.
From National Geographic ● Jan. 20, 2021
Perhaps most distressing about SantaCon is its size and the way that it shuts down and befouls dozens of blocks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2013
Neither is the spread of U.S. industrialism which changes and befouls the Midwestern city.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shakespeare, in the induction of Taming of the Shrew, befouls "Christopher Sly" in a similar way, but Sly thinks it was "nothing but a dream."
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
