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.
William Butler Yeats