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Definition: Befouled |
BefouledAdjective1. Made dirty or foul; "a building befouled with soot"; "breathing air fouled and darkened with factory soot". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "befouled" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
Synonym: BefouledSynonym: fouled (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Befouled |
| English words defined with "befouled": fouled. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "befouled": Befoul. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The rain, which befouled the sewer of former times, washes the sewer of the present day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "befouled"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | beschmutzte (begrimed, dirtied, fouled, messed, mired, polluted, smudged, smutted). (various references) | ||||
Hebrew | מעוכר (muddy, troubled), × ×¨×¤×© (miry, muddy, slushy, turbid). (various references) | ||||
Indonesian | tercemar (besmitched, contaminated, polluted). (various references) | ||||
Manx | broighit (dirted), breinnit (tainted). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | efouledbay | ||||
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"Befouled" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bifold, biofuelled. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-e-f-l-o-u" | |
-2 letters: befoul, double, fouled, fueled. | |
-3 letters: bedel, bleed, blued, boule, elude, feued, flued, lobed, lubed. | |
-4 letters: bedu, beef, bled, blue, bode, bold, bole, dele, delf, dole, duel, feed, feel, feod, feud, fled, flee, floe, flub, flue, fold, foul, fuel, leud, lobe, lode, loud, lube, lude. | |
-5 letters: bed, bee, bel, bod, bud, deb, dee, del, doe. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-e-f-l-o-u" | |
+2 letters: furbelowed. | |
+5 letters: nonrefundable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 65 66 6F 75 6C 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . ..-. --- ..- .-.. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01100101 01100110 01101111 01110101 01101100 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B e f o u l e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0065 0066 006F 0075 006C 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3671728187787170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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