Usually means: To make dirty or pollute.
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  1. befoul: Merriam-Webster
  2. befoul: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. befoul: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. befoul: Collins English Dictionary
  5. befoul: Vocabulary.com
  6. befoul: Wordnik
  7. befoul: Wiktionary
  8. befoul: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. befoul: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. befoul: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Befoul, befoul: Dictionary.com
  12. Befoul: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. befoul: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. befoul: Rhymezone
  15. Befoul: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. befoul: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. befoul: FreeDictionary.org
  18. befoul: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. befoul: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. befoul: Legal dictionary

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  1. befoul: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. befoul: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See befouled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (befoul)

verb:  To make foul; to soil; to contaminate, pollute.
verb:  (specifically) To defecate on, to soil with excrement.
verb:  (figuratively) To stain or mar (for example with infamy or disgrace).
verb:  To entangle or run against so as to impede motion.

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