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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
befoul .
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Examples
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He may be the fashion of Paris and at Court, but down here his very name befouls the air.
Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... Rafael Sabatini 1912
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The musty smell that befouls clothes left to sit in the washing machine after washing is the top "unmet consumer concern in the laundry room," according to a Whirlpool Corporation survey.
Inside Consumer Reports Tests Labs: New front-loading washing machines from Whirlpool and Maytag 2009
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The musty smell that befouls clothes left to sit in the washing machine after washing is the top "unmet consumer concern in the laundry room," according to a Whirlpool Corporation survey.
Inside Consumer Reports Tests Labs: New front-loading washing machines from Whirlpool and Maytag 2009
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And how did it come to eclipse the idea of simply slapping a tax on energy consumption that befouls the public square or leaves the nation hostage to foreign oil producers?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Policy as Sausage Making: 2009
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Containing forty-three different sulfur compounds, including the same ones found in onions, garlic and skunks, this spiky fruit befouls any enclosed space.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Containing forty-three different sulfur compounds, including the same ones found in onions, garlic and skunks, this spiky fruit befouls any enclosed space.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Containing forty-three different sulfur compounds, including the same ones found in onions, garlic and skunks, this spiky fruit befouls any enclosed space.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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Oh, nature is disgusting; it takes beauty and defiles it: it defaces the ivory-white body we have adored, with the vile cicatrices of maternity: it befouls the altar of the soul.
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There, surrounded by silent tombstones and armed Secret Service Police, this most infamous of military deserters befouls not only the hallowed ground, but the very air, as he regurgitates words he babbled the year before ... and the year before.
SUPPORT THE TROOPS 2006
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This affliction causes them to overfeed the Dark Lord a-more with their incessant compromises in the workplace, and He devours and digests their creepy and self-negating decisions by day, and befouls them anew with the sooty issue of their moral failures each evening.
A Birthday Wish List: Part 3 Douglas Hoffman 2005
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