befouled
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- adjective
- /bɪˈfaʊld/
:
contaminado
- After the storm, the once clear lake was now befouled with debris and waste.
Examples
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He walked with the wind in his face, treading carefully on the befouled snow and trying not to breathe deeply the reeking air.
Fiction book (1992) -
The artist created a powerful image of a befouled river, highlighting the effects of pollution on the environment.
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The children tried to play in the park, but the befouled ground made it difficult to find a clean spot.
Synonyms
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Not clean because it has mud or grease on it
Dirty and polluted with waste or unwanted material
Something that becomes unsafe because it touches something dirty or harmful
Not safe to use because dangerous chemicals are in the air, water, or soil
Covered thickly with dark dirt or soot
Made morally dirty, especially a place or thing people respect
Antonyms
How Dirty
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Befouled is built from the prefix be- meaning 'make' and the word foul meaning 'dirty' or 'bad'. So to be 'befouled' is to be made dirty or polluted, whether that is a place, the air, or even someone's reputation.