befoul
verb (used with object)
to make dirty or filthy; soil; defile; sully.
have befouled
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present perfectof befoul.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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On another wall was a banner reading “Break The Curse” — an unofficial campaign slogan decrying the corruption and controversy that have befouled most District 14 councilmembers for decades.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
It’s not as though Harvard lacks for alums whom the institution should be ashamed to be associated with, or who have befouled “the public perception of integrity in higher education.”
From Salon ● Dec. 10, 2018
I myself have befouled them with my mockery.
From The Dangerous Age by Karin Michaëlis
You have so outraged my mother, the Countess de Soissons, that the falsehood with which you have befouled her honored name can never be recalled!
From Prince Eugene and His Times by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
See to my gown, the third that I have befouled within the week.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
