Befoul

Definition: Befoul

Befoul

Verb

1. Spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it".

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Date "befoul" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Note: Befoul \Be*foul"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Befouled; present participle verb or noun Befouling.]. (references)

Synonyms: Befoul

Uncleanness

Render unclean; Adjective: dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease;dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear; bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt; (injure); cover with dust; Noun: drabble in the mud; roil.

Crosswords: Befoul

Albanian

bëj pis (mess). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لوث (bedaub, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, degrade, dirty, discredit, file, foul, pollute, smear, smirch, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), ‏وسخ (bedraggle, begrime, defiled, dirty, filthy, foul, grime, grimy, grubbiness, litter, mess up, offset, ordure, scum, slattern, smut, soil, soot, sordid, stain, tarnish). (various references)

Bulgarian 

осквернявам (contaminate, defile, desecrate, do violence to, pollute, profane, violate), омърсявам (besmirch, dirty, muck, slubber, smirch, soil), замърсявам (contaminate, defile, foul up, pollute, taint, vitiate). (various references)

Czech

poskvrnit (dapple, dishonor, dishonour, pollute, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish). (various references)

French

souiller, salir (begrime, besmear). (various references)

German

besudeln (besmear, besmirch, smear, smirch, soil, sully, to smirch), verpesten (contaminate, foul, poison, pollute). (various references)

Greek 

ρυπαίνω (bedaub, besmirch, defile, pollute, smirch, soil, sully), λερώνω (bedraggle, begrime, besmear, besmirch, bespatter, blacken, defile, dirty, foul, grime, moil, slur, smear, smirch, soil, splotch, stain, sully). (various references)

Hebrew 

ללכלך (daub, dirty, foul, grime, muck, smirch, smudge, soil, stain, sully), לעכור (afflict, disturb, make turbid, trouble). (various references)

Hungarian

bemocskol (attaint, bedabble, begrime, besmirch, defile, dirty, foul, mire, smear, to blemish, to defile, to dirty, to foul, to grime, to mire, to slubber, to smut, to soil, to spatter, to splatter, to taint). (various references)

Italian

insudiciare (begrime, dirty, dirty oneself, get dirty, pollute, smudge, soil, stain). (various references)

Manx

broighey (contamination, dirty, dunging, pollute, soil), breinnaghey (become smelly, foul, go off, go off as milk, putrefy, taint). (various references)

Pig Latin

efoulbay.(various references)

Portuguese

sujar (bedabble, begrime, besmear, besmirch, blemish, blotch, daub, defile, dirt, dirty, dishallow, drabble, draggle, foul, grime, make it wrong, mess, muck, muddy, slubber, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, stain, sully), manchar (besmirch, blemish, blight, blotch, blur, dirty, discolor, discolour, fleck, foul, fox, maculate, pollute, smirch, smoke, smudge, soil, speckle, spot, sully, taint). (various references)

Russian 

осквернять (contaminate, defile, desecrate, pollute, profane, violate), пачкать (begrime, besmear, besmirch, daub, mess, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splotch, spot, sully). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ukaljati (become defiled, dirty, mire, soil, stain, sully). (various references)

Spanish

manchar (bedaub, besmirch, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, dapple, daub, defile, dirty, foul, maculate, Mark, smear, smudge, soil, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish), ensuciar (bedraggle, besmirch, defile, dirty, foul, litter, mess, mess up, pollute, soil). (various references)

Swedish

besmutsa. (various references)

Turkish

pisletmek (begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, dirty, grime, make a mess of, make dirty, mess, muck, smutch, soil), lekelemek (asperse, attaint, bastardize, bedaub, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blotch, blur, brand, breathe upon, cloud, defile, dirty, discolor, discolour, dishonor, fleck, flecker, maculate, mottle, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smutch, soil, spatter, speckle, splodge, splotch, spot, sprinkle, stain, stigmatize, sully, taint, tarnish), kirletmek (bedaub, begrime, bemire, besmear, besmirch, blot, contaminate, daub, defile, dirty, foul, foul up, grime, make dirty, mess, pollute, rape, slur, smear, smirch, smutch, soil, spatter, stain, sully, tarnish, vitiate). (various references)

Ukrainian

бруднити (begrime, bespatter, blur, daub, dirty, discolor, discolour, foul, mess up, muck, muss, smear, smudge, soil, sully), поганити (pollute, profane). (various references)

Welsh

caglo (bedraggle). (various references)

lesem, levi, levistis, levit, lineam, lineas, lini, liniebant, linies, liniretur, liniri, linitionem, liniunt, linivit, lino, linoque, linui, linuit, linunt, lita, litura, litus, perliniens. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "befoul": befouled, befouler, befoulers, befouling, befouls. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Befoul" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bafuor, Bedou, Bedous, Befehl, Befu, beroul, Beyoglu, Bheoil, bifold, Letoul. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: boule.

-2 letters: blue, bole, floe, flub, flue, foul, fuel, lobe, lube.

-3 letters: bel, elf, feu, flu, fob, foe, fou, fub, leu, lob, obe, ole.

-4 letters: be, bo, ef, el, lo, oe, of.

+1 letter: befouls.

+2 letters: befouled, befouler, furbelow, outfable.

+3 letters: befoulers, befouling, bottleful, buffaloed, buffaloes, focusable, furbelows, outfabled, outfables, outfumble.

+4 letters: bottlefuls, clubfooted, furbelowed, outbluffed, outfumbled, outfumbles.

+5 letters: bulletproof, confabulate, furbelowing, neurofibril, unfavorable.