Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make dirty; soil. synonym: contaminate.
- transitive verb To cast aspersions upon; speak badly of.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make foul; cover with filth; soil; tarnish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make foul; to soil.
- transitive verb To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To make
foul ; tosoil . - verb To
entangle or run against so as toimpede motion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb spot, stain, or pollute
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Examples
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Katrina van den Heuvel will make Grover Norquist befoul his panties.
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Katrina van den Heuvel will make Grover Norquist befoul his panties.
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He experienced the gall of bitter suffering under a brutal prison regime but did not let spiritual bitterness befoul his soul.
Five Best: Still Free to Think: Prison Writing Martin E. Marty 2011
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The teabagger trolls that befoul this blog are Klansmen.
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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 2009
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Jwest will be the first to throw a hissy fit and befoul his panties after his favorite Starbucks raises their prices 200%.
Think Progress » Global warming is a ‘nightmare’ for coffee. 2010
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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.
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What stems and leaves befoul his work he gathers in a canopy, avoiding both sun and rain.
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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.
Hurricane Katrina and the Lost Prisoners of New Orleans 2010
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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.
Charles Shaw: Hurricane Katrina and the Lost Prisoners of New Orleans 2010
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