Associations to the word «Befoul»
Wiktionary
BEFOUL, verb. To make foul; to soil.
BEFOUL, verb. To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.
Dictionary definition
BEFOUL, verb. Spot, stain, or pollute; "The townspeople defiled the river by emptying raw sewage into it".
Wise words
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary
meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the
truants in custody and bring them back to their right
senses.