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To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
(RQ:Dickens Pictures from Italy)
1897, Robert Gwynneddon Davies (translator), ''The Sleeping Bard'' by (w), London: Simplkon, Marshall & Co., Part I,https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5671/5671-h/5671-h.htm
- 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.
(quote-book)|title=The Wicked Day|location=New York|publisher=William Morrow|chapter=5|page=53|url=https://archive.org/details/wickedday00stewrich
1997, (w), ''(w)'', “Echo and Narcissus” in Paul Keegan (ed.), ''Ted Hughes: Collected Poems'', New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, p. 919,https://archive.org/details/collectedpoems00hugh
- There was a pool of perfect water.
- (..) No cattle
- Had slobbered their muzzles in it
- And befouled it.
{{quote-text|en|year=1666|author=George Alsop|title=A Character of the Province of Mary-Land|location=London|publisher=Peter Dring|section=Preface|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A25198.0001.001
(RQ:Smollett Roderick Random) But pray what smell is that? Sure your lapdog has befoul’d himself;—let me catch hold of the nasty cur, I’ll teach him better manners.”
(quote-text)|location=London|publisher=Heinemann|section=Part 5, p. 282|url=https://archive.org/details/manxman00cain
{{quote-text|en|year=1923|author=James Branch Cabell|title=The High Place|location=London|publisher=John Lane|section=Part 2, Chapter 15|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20150414/html.php
{{quote-book|en|year=1927|author=Frances Noyes Hart|title=The Bellamy Trial|location=Garden City, NY|publisher=Doubleday, Doran & Co.|year_published=1929|chapter=5|page=159|url=https://www.fadedpage.com/books/20120315/html.php
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion. (rfquote-sense)