befoul
IPA: bˈɛfˈaʊɫ
verb
- To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
- (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
- (figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
- To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
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Examples of "befoul" in Sentences
- The teabagger trolls that befoul this blog are Klansmen.
- Katrina van den Heuvel will make Grover Norquist befoul his panties.
- What stems and leaves befoul his work he gathers in a canopy, avoiding both sun and rain.
- Jwest will be the first to throw a hissy fit and befoul his panties after his favorite Starbucks raises their prices 200%.
- He experienced the gall of bitter suffering under a brutal prison regime but did not let spiritual bitterness befoul his soul.
- 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.
- 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.
- Phineas was imprisoned on an island with a giant feast laid before him that he could never eat because the Harpies would steal food from his hands, and befoul the rest with their droppings.
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