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[ UK /bɪfˈa‍ʊl/ ]
VERB
  1. spot, stain, or pollute
    The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it

How To Use befoul In A Sentence

  • I shrank inside and out from the fog and what it held-so alien to my flesh and spirit that to come even this close to it was befoulment beyond the finding of words. Year of the Unicorn
  • His legs had turned to stone, his bowels to water; it was all he could do not to befoul his pants. GALILEE
  • The teabagger trolls that befoul this blog are Klansmen. Think Progress » Tea Party protesters reportedly spit on one lawmaker, call others ‘fa–ot’ and ‘ni–er.’
  • The bird befouled its own nest.
  • Katrina van den Heuvel will make Grover Norquist befoul his panties. Think Progress » ThinkFast: February 3, 2010
  • We find stunning beaches befouled by backpackers.
  • a building befouled with soot
  • For a nation to endorse torture as an element of policy and to employ it just once is to befoul it morally ever bit as much as if it had tortured millions. Hastert goes (back) to work for Turkey « Antiwar.com Blog
  • Men who work in a macho sports world, where to yield a step means intolerable humiliation, willingly befoul their own legacy, and then surrender it to long-term tarnish. Ben Roethlisberger at a crossroads
  • You are scum, befouling the surface of the earth.
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