befoul
vt. 弄脏
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释义与例句
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1.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
弄脏
1897, Robert Gwynneddon Davies (translator), The Sleeping Bard by Ellis Wynne, London: Simplkon, Marshall & Co., Part I, 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.
1997, Ted Hughes, Tales from Ovid, “Echo and Narcissus” in Paul Keegan (ed.), Ted Hughes: Collected Poems, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, p. 919, There was a pool of perfect water. […] No cattle Had slobbered their muzzles in it And befouled it.
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2.
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
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3.
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
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4.
To stain or mar (e.g., with infamy or disgrace).
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词汇关系
词源
From be- + foul.
来源：wiktionary