befoul

verbA2

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verb
V_es/s
befouls
V_ing/Gerund
befouling
V_ed/pp
befouled
  1. 1.

    (literally)To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.

    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.

    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.

    Đồng nghĩa: befile, befilth, foul, assoil, beclart, bedaub, bedirty, imbrue (especially with blood), bedizen, befile, befilth, befoul, begrime, beray, beshit, besmear, besmirch, besully, bewray, blacken, blot, blur, clat, contaminate, darken, defile, dirten, dirty, elt, file, foil, foul, gunk, gunk up, inquinate, scunge, sling mud, slotter, slur, smear, smirch, smudge, smut, smutch, soil, soss, sowl, spot, stain, sullow, sully, tarnish, uggle

  2. 2.

    (figuratively)To stain or mar (e.g., with infamy or disgrace).

    Đồng nghĩa: besmirch, sully, tarnish, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth, befoul, belibel, besmirch, besmear, bewray, blacken, blame, blaze, blemish, blot, blur, calumniate, calumny, chat shit, chat shite, cloud, defame, demonize, denigrate, deprave, depreciate, detract, dirty, discredit, disgrace, disparage, disrepute, diss, drag through the mud, forgab, forspeak, foul, infamize, lampoon, libel, malign, monsterize, muddy, reproach, revile, scandal, shit-talk, slag, slander, smear, smirch, spatter, spot, speak ill of, stab, stain, sully, talk shit, talk shite, talk trash, tarnish, torch, traduce, trash-talk, unflatter, vilify, vilipend, villainize, wrong

  3. 3.

    (figuratively)To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

    Đồng nghĩa: enmesh, foul, snarl, enmesh, ensnare, ensnarl, entangle, foul, implicate, imply, involve, mat, ravel, snarl, tangle

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Đồng nghĩa

befilebefilthfoulassoilbeclartbedaubbedirtyimbrue (especially with blood)bedizenbegrimeberaybeshitbesmearbesmirchbesullybewrayblackenblotblurclat

Cùng gốc / liên quan

unbefouledbefoulerbefoulmentafoul

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Nguồn gốc từ

ine-pro From be- + foul.

Nguồn dữ liệu: freedict, dictionary, wiktionary · cập nhật 13/8/2026

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