Befoul

/bɪˈfaʊl/

Synonyms for "befoul" (109 found)

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Collocations

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befoul airbefoul environmentbefoul public imagebefoul reputationbefoul water

Inflections

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Derivations

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Translations

18 translations across 10 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • замърсявам verb (to make foul, to soil)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries
  • 弄脏 verb (to make foul, to soil)

Dutch

3 entries
  • bevuilen verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • bezoedelen verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • verzieken verb (to make foul, to soil)

German

1 entries
  • verderben verb (to make foul, to soil)

Korean

1 entries
  • 더럽히다 verb (to make foul, to soil)

Latin

1 entries
  • inquinō verb (to make foul, to soil)

Ottoman Turkish

4 entries
  • بوقلامق verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • كیرلمك verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • مردارلامق verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • پیسلمك verb (to make foul, to soil)

Polish

4 entries
  • brudzić verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • kalać verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • skalać verb (to make foul, to soil)
  • ubrudzić verb (to make foul, to soil)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • conspurcar verb (to make foul, to soil)

Russian

1 entries
  • загрязнять verb (to make foul, to soil)

Sample sentences

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These heights are a desirable retreat, for less picturesque reasons—as an escape from a compound of vile smells perpetually arising from a great harbour full of stagnant water, and befouled by the refuse of innumerable ships with all sorts of cargoes: which, in hot weather, is dreadful in the last degree.

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1897, Robert Gwynneddon Davies (translator), The Sleeping Bard by Ellis Wynne, London: Simplkon, Marshall & Co., Part I, At last, what with a round of blasphemy, and the whole crowd with clay pistols belching smoke and fire and slander of their neighbours, and the floor already befouled with dregs and spittle, I feared lest viler deeds should happen, and craved to depart.

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Only the four walls of his home still stood, blackened and smoking with the sluggish, stinking smoke that befouled the sea-wind.

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1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, “Echo and Narcissus” in Paul Keegan (ed.), Ted Hughes: Collected Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, p. 919, There was a pool of perfect water. […] No cattle Had slobbered their muzzles in it And befouled it.

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