befoul
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be·foul
(bĭ-foul′)tr.v.be·fouled,be·foul·ing,be·fouls
1. To make dirty; soil. See Synonyms at contaminate.
2. To cast aspersions upon; speak badly of.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
befoul
(bɪˈfaʊl)vb
(tr) to make dirty or foul; soil; defile
beˈfoulern
beˈfoulmentn
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
be•foul
(bɪˈfaʊl)v.t.
to make dirty or filthy; soil; defile.
[1275–1325]
be•foul′er,n.
be•foul′ment,n.
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
befoul
Past participle:befouled
Gerund:befouling
Imperative |
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befoul |
befoul |
Present |
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I befoul |
you befoul |
he/she/it befouls |
we befoul |
you befoul |
they befoul |
Preterite |
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I befouled |
you befouled |
he/she/it befouled |
we befouled |
you befouled |
they befouled |
Present Continuous |
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I am befouling |
you are befouling |
he/she/it is befouling |
we are befouling |
you are befouling |
they are befouling |
Present Perfect |
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I have befouled |
you have befouled |
he/she/it has befouled |
we have befouled |
you have befouled |
they have befouled |
Past Continuous |
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I was befouling |
you were befouling |
he/she/it was befouling |
we were befouling |
you were befouling |
they were befouling |
Past Perfect |
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I had befouled |
you had befouled |
he/she/it had befouled |
we had befouled |
you had befouled |
they had befouled |
Future |
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I will befoul |
you will befoul |
he/she/it will befoul |
we will befoul |
you will befoul |
they will befoul |
Future Perfect |
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I will have befouled |
you will have befouled |
he/she/it will have befouled |
we will have befouled |
you will have befouled |
they will have befouled |
Future Continuous |
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I will be befouling |
you will be befouling |
he/she/it will be befouling |
we will be befouling |
you will be befouling |
they will be befouling |
Present Perfect Continuous |
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I have been befouling |
you have been befouling |
he/she/it has been befouling |
we have been befouling |
you have been befouling |
they have been befouling |
Future Perfect Continuous |
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I will have been befouling |
you will have been befouling |
he/she/it will have been befouling |
we will have been befouling |
you will have been befouling |
they will have been befouling |
Past Perfect Continuous |
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I had been befouling |
you had been befouling |
he/she/it had been befouling |
we had been befouling |
you had been befouling |
they had been befouling |
Conditional |
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I would befoul |
you would befoul |
he/she/it would befoul |
we would befoul |
you would befoul |
they would befoul |
Past Conditional |
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I would have befouled |
you would have befouled |
he/she/it would have befouled |
we would have befouled |
you would have befouled |
they would have befouled |
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After the execution Pierre was separated from the rest of the prisoners and placed alone in a small, ruined, andbefouled church.
"Stop, father, hast forgot that but for Roger de Conde ye might have seen your daughter a corpse ere now, or, worse, herselfbefouled and dishonored?"
On thisbefouled background visions began to flow and burn.
Marry, thy jerkin is allbefouled with the dust of the road.
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See to my gown, the third that I havebefouled within the week.
They kill our women and our young, theybefoul our al-Aqsa and we slumber.
Apart from the modern human, no other sentient being on planet Earth elects to create an inherently unstable "life system" and thereafter tobefoul its own living space, as we humans do.
A critic for The Guardian wrote that future viewers "will be astonished that such a negative portrayal of homosexuality persisted in the mainstream in 2015.'' Variety wrote that the film was "undone by some of the ugliest gay-panic humor tobefoul a studio release in recent memory.''
If you're disturbed by white-collar crime, but not quite as disturbed as you are by gay sex, then congratulations: You might possess just the right combo of social conscience and unexamined homophobia needed to fully enjoy "Get Hard." Not even two of America's most reliable funnymen can eke consistent laughs out of this sloppy odd-couple comedy about a wrongly convicted millionaire (Will Ferrell) who asks the nearest black guy (Kevin Hart) to toughen him up in preparation for a decade behind bars--a premise that allows for a few timely jabs at racial oppression and class disparity, though it's ultimately undone by some of the ugliest gay-panic humor tobefoul a studio release in recent memory.
The land may take on a sacred quality to us because of how well we know it but we all too often assume the public willbefoul our special places.
The wrong kinds are those such as the blaze that just killed 19 firefighters recently in Arizona, or those that have put Southeast Asia under a pall, that incinerate communities,befoul ecosystems with effluents, and trash biotas by burning at the wrong times and intensities.
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