Synonyms for befoul
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Foul — to stain or mar (e.g., with infamy or disgrace)
foul, dirty, blacken, wrong, smear, injure, sully, tarnish, malign, denigrate, defame, debase, deprave, traduce, bespatter, asperse, besmirch, bad-mouth, back-bite, disgrace, muddy, discredit
2. Defile — to make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. To defecate on, to soil with excrement
defile, soil, contaminate, shit on, slur, pollute, besmear, begrime, darken, smut, smudge, smooch, smouch US, gunk up informal, gunk, elt UK, slotter, sullow, inquinate formal, bedizen formal UK, scunge, stain, blot
Definitions
- v. 1
To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute. To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
- v. 2
To stain or mar (e.g., with infamy or disgrace).
- v. 3
To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Related words
- Word family
- befoulment
Forms
- Past participle
- befouled
e.g. befouled → fouled, dirtied, blackened, wronged…
Example sentences
- smear Will I be tested for chlamydia during my smear test?
- injure You have to be careful so as not to injure yourself.
- sully I wouldn't want to sully your good name.
- blacken Don't blacken the fridge with your dirty fingers.
- soil Fertile soil is indispensable for a good harvest.
- defile I can't believe you would defile a gravestone!
By length
- 3 letters
- elt
- 4 letters
- soil1, foul1, slur1, blot1, smut1, gunk
- 5 letters
- wrong1, dirty2, stain1, muddy2, smear1, sully2, snarl1
- 6 letters
- injure2, darken2, smudge1, malign2, defile, defame2, smooch1, debase2, enmesh2, smouch, sullow, scunge, bemire
- 7 letters
- tarnish2, pollute2, blacken2, deprave2, slotter, traduce, asperse, besmear, begrime, bedizen3
- 8 letters
- disgrace2, besmirch, maculate
- 9 letters
- discredit3, denigrate3, bespatter, inquinate
- 11 letters
- contaminate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (dirty2 = 2 syllables).