transitive. To make or declare (a person or thing) unclean.

transitive. To make hory, foul, or filthy; to defile, pollute.

transitive. To make foul, cover with filth or dirt; often of moral filth; esp. in the proverbial to befoul one's own nest.

to befoul.

transitive. To render (materially) foul, filthy or dirty; to pollute, dirty; to destroy the cleanness or purity of; = defile, v.1 2. Obsolete exc. di…

transitive. To dirty, soil.

transitive. To dirty, smirch, pollute, defile. Obsolete.

transitive. To make (something) dirty, polluted, or full of impurities.

transitive. To dirty, soil, smear, daub, etc.

transitive. To make foul or filthy (literal and figurative); to defile. Also occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To make foul or dirty; to soil.

transitive. To make foul, defile.

To make dirty or filthy, to befoul, defile.

transitive. To dirty (? with handling).

Ironically. To disfigure, dirty, befoul, defile. Obsolete.

transitive. To smear, bespatter, soil with blood, dirt, etc.; to dirty, defile. Cf. beray, v. 1a. Obsolete (English regional (northern) in later use).

transitive. To befoul or dirty.

transitive. To disfigure, dirty, defile, befoul (with dirt, filth, ordure).

transitive. To make filthy (literal and figurative).

transitive. To cover with or as with birdlime, in order to make a trap. Also figurative. Now rare.

transitive. To make foul or dirty.

transitive. To make dirty, befoul.

transitive. To make dirty or foul; to defile or pollute with dirt; to dirty, to soil.

transitive. To make filthy (literal and figurative).

transitive. To make foul or filthy; to befoul, besmirch.

transitive. To make dirty or unclean; to defile or pollute with dirt; to soil. Also figurative (sometimes const. up).

transitive. To make dirty, to soil; to spoil, to ruin, to bungle.

transitive. To cover or defile with dirt; figurative ‘to throw dirt at,’ to vilify.

transitive. To sully, dirty.

ironically. To dirty, befoul. dialect.

transitive. Meaning uncertain: perhaps ‘to cause to smell’; or perhaps ‘to foul, soil’.

transitive. To defile, dirty.

to befoul as with paws.

transitive. To pollute or contaminate (water). Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts. Obsolete.

transitive. To make dirty; to befoul. Also reflexive.

transitive. To make muddy, to befoul.

transitive. To remove dirt from, chiefly figurative; also, to make dirty with scavenging.

transitive. To make dirty, to soil.

transitive. To render squalid or filthy.

transitive. Australian, New Zealand, and English regional. To make (a thing) dirty; to block or litter (a place), esp. with mining refuse. Usually…

transitive. To cover or splash with mud; to dirty.