befile

词形变化

befiled befiles 三单 befiles befiling befiling 现在分词 befiled 过去式 befiled 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To make filthy; befoul; soil.

    方言 废旧 及物

词源

From Middle English befilen, from Old English befȳlan (“to befoul, defile, make dirty”), from Proto-West Germanic *bifūlijan (“to make foul”), equivalent to be- + file. Cognate with Scots befile (“to befile”), West Frisian befûlje (“to dirty”), Dutch bevuilen (“to soil, dirty”), German Low German befulen (“to soil, pollute”). See also defile.

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